WMST 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Christine De Pizan, Simone De Beauvoir, Guillaume De Lorris

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

Campaign puts together reaction shots from male athletes with questions that female athletes have actually been asked by interviewers. Controversial critique of the patriarchy, challenges social, political and religious categories. Women designated as other inferior to men. The second sex, beauvoir examines the interaction between the gendered self and the gendered world. Immanence: the historic domain assigned to women by patriarchal institutions. Transcendence: the ability to move beyond social restrictions into the external universe. Beauvoir: women are forced to relinquish their existential right to transcendence and accept a circumscribed and repetitive imprisonment. So long as it is around, economic and political advances will fall short of the goal of liberation. An androgynous future is not possible: there will always be differences between the sexes. These differences must not be used to justify the difference between a subject (man) and an object (woman) Throughout human history, man has occupied the role of self, the subject, an independent and free being.