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Women in Real Life
“I hesitated for a long time before writing a book on women. … Are there even women?” So begins Simone de Beauvoir’s culture-upending book, The Second Sex, in French Le Deuxième Sexe, published in 1949 by Gallimard. Some years … Continue reading →
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Five Coins in the Fountain
Before feminism, girls in America were expected to be “popular.” But exceptionally, in my high school, I got an exemption. So, what high school did I go to? At that time, it was generally thought both democratic and fair to … Continue reading →
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Femininity – A Social Construct?
A professor in one of my graduate departments of philosophy warned me that, if I wanted “to become a philosopher, [I’d] have to destroy [my] femininity!” On the other hand, Simone de Beauvoir opened her path-breaking, paradigm-shaking book, The … Continue reading →
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