Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.11: The Second Sex — de Beauvoir Questions
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The 'eternal feminine' is de Beauvoir's name for:
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Calling woman 'the second sex' captures the idea that she is:
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The 'socialisation' de Beauvoir describes works powerfully because it:
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Why is blocked transcendence a wrong, for de Beauvoir?
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Why is woman a specially 'hard to shift' kind of Other, for de Beauvoir?
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De Beauvoir's charge about women and immanence is that:
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The distinction de Beauvoir draws is between:
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'Immanence', in The Second Sex, is:
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A 'myth' of femininity, in de Beauvoir's sense, is:
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The myth of Woman traps real women because it:
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True or false? For de Beauvoir, even flattering myths of Woman ('purer', 'more caring') can trap real women.
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A 'situation', for de Beauvoir, is:
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Even FLATTERING myths (e.g. 'women are purer, more caring') trap women because:
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True or false? For de Beauvoir, women are pure victims with no freedom left, so nothing they do can change their situation.
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In de Beauvoir's terms, the 'Self' is:
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True or false? 'Woman as the Other' is mainly a claim about how women are TREATED, not about what women really are.
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True or false? The line 'one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' denies that biological sex exists.
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True or false? For de Beauvoir, the wrong isn't doing repetitive work, but being CONFINED to it with no path out to projects of your own.
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Calling woman 'the Other' means that she is:
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For de Beauvoir, 'becoming a woman' happens mainly through:
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