Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.11: The Second Sex — de Beauvoir Questions
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The 'socialisation' de Beauvoir describes works powerfully because it:
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De Beauvoir's charge about women and immanence is that:
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Calling woman 'the second sex' captures the idea that she is:
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In de Beauvoir's terms, the 'Self' is:
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Why is blocked transcendence a wrong, for de Beauvoir?
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Does the famous line deny biology?
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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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Are transcendence and immanence, for de Beauvoir, simply 'male' and 'female'?
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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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The balance de Beauvoir has to hold is between:
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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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Why is woman a specially 'hard to shift' kind of Other, for de Beauvoir?
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De Beauvoir's opening move in The Second Sex is to notice that:
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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" claims that:
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For de Beauvoir, 'transcendence' means:
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The 'eternal feminine' is de Beauvoir's name for:
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Fill the gap: the myth of a single, timeless feminine essence is called the eternal ______.
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Fill the gap with one word: man is set up as the ______, the standard human, while woman is defined against him.
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