POLI 3P71 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Slut, Immanence, Breastfeeding
13 Sep 2017
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Simone de beauvoir (1908 - 1986: introduction, biology, psychoanalysis, historical materialism. She tried to get as much information as possible, she looked into marxism, psychoanalysis, biological diff between men and women, anthropology, history and political history. The second sex covers a lot of material. Women being associated with other has a longer history associated with consciousness. She looks at human and animal biology and tries to get back to the essential question, are two sexes necessary in human production. When it comes to the essence of human beings there are two things that define humans, we all have physical bodies, and we all have a sense of mortality. The knowledge of mortality troubles us, because we wonder what happens in the afterlife. Doesn"t mean we need sexual differences, hermaphrodite, biological diff are not that straight forward. We all have bodies and there are diff between the bodies so we cant just divide them into two.
