Simone de beauvoir

The Second Sex (2011 reprint)

“Referring to a book—a very irritating one at that—Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, Dorothy Parker wrote: ‘I cannot be fair about books that treat women as women. My idea is that all of us, men as well as women, whoever we are, should be considered as human beings.’ But nominalism is a doctrine that falls a bit short; and it is easy for antifeminists to show that women are not men. Certainly woman like man is a human being; but such an assertion is abstract; the fact is that every concrete human being is always uniquely situated. To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight. Clearly, no woman can claim without bad faith to be situated beyond her sex.” (24)

Feature 2

Quisque congue porttitor ullamcorper. Vivamus sit amet semper lacus, in mollis libero.

Feature 3

Sed a ligula quis sapien lacinia egestas. Vivamus sit amet semper lacus, in mollis libero.