READING RESPONSE

It is true to say that Second Sex by De Beauvoir is one of the first confrontations of a feminist point of view. De Beauvoir’s in this book is men primarily coerce females by characterizing them on any given level. Men have occupied the role subject and self as they are transcendent, essential and absolute when on the other hand a woman is an object as she is inessential, mutilated and incomplete (Beauvoir, 2011). De Beauvoir’s says that a man further imposes his will on earth as he creates, invents, acts whereas a woman is deemed to be inwardness as she waits for a man to save her. Like most military leaders Napoleon is no different as he argued that a woman is solely a mother. This is unfair to the female gender as there are deprived of their rights. The married women powers are limited to the marriage contract and the law that limit them to political rights (Beauvoir, 2011).

In support of the Second Sex chronicles, female humans have occupied the second position in the society as De Beauvoir’s turns to psychoanalysis, biology, and the historical materialism. De Beauvoir’s considers the historical state of male superiority in the French revolution and female subordination. I agree with De Beauvoir’s as she argues that history is not an immutable fact but it is rather a reflection of injustices, attitudes, and preconceptions. According to De Beauvoir’s (2011) women, liberation is a collective task as it requires all economic revolution of the feminine condition in order to attain salvation and reinforce women dependency. This will help the women in drowning the thought of being an object and break free particularly in a marriage that will create equality (Beauvoir, 2011).

 

 

Reference

  Beauvoir, S. (2011). The Second Sex. Vintage Books, New York