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OXFORD READINGS IN FEMINISM CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FEMINISM

Simone de Beauvoir’s famous dictum, literally translated: ‘One is not
born woman, one becomes this’, quite aptly encapsulates the theoretical bulwark of what has come to be known as ‘first wave’ feminism in France.1
Although many French women had fought for varying degrees of equal status under the law prior to the late nineteenth century, the first wave of French feminism is generally considered to have begun with the suffragettes’ turn of the century struggles for the right to vote and to have concluded with existentialist feminism’s call for equal recognition for women at all levels of the social and symbolic orders. De Beauvoir’s groundbreaking opus, The Second Sex, dissects the inner and outer workings of a historical, patriarchal oppression of women—in such diverse domains as biology, politics, philosophy, and literature—as a means to demonstrating the undeniable veracity of the above dictum. Expanding existentialism’s claim that ‘existence
precedes essence’ to include the essence of the ‘fairer sex’, de Beauvoir
sets herself the monumental task of a thoroughgoing examination of
the ways in which femininity, and even femaleness, are cultural constructs which may or may not be taken up by any given individual.

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305.5 Kel O
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New York : Oxford University Press.,
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English
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0–19–9248346
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305.5
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Cet. 1
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Filsafat
Feminisme
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  • OXFORD READINGS IN FEMINISM CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FEMINISM
    Simone de Beauvoir’s famous dictum, literally translated: ‘One is not born woman, one becomes this’, quite aptly encapsulates the theoretical bulwark of what has come to be known as ‘first wave’ feminism in France.1 Although many French women had fought for varying degrees of equal status under the law prior to the late nineteenth century, the first wave of French feminism is generally considered to have begun with the suffragettes’ turn of the century struggles for the right to vote and to have concluded with existentialist feminism’s call for equal recognition for women at all levels of the social and symbolic orders. De Beauvoir’s groundbreaking opus, The Second Sex, dissects the inner and outer workings of a historical, patriarchal oppression of women—in such diverse domains as biology, politics, philosophy, and literature—as a means to demonstrating the undeniable veracity of the above dictum. Expanding existentialism’s claim that ‘existence precedes essence’ to include the essence of the ‘fairer sex’, de Beauvoir sets herself the monumental task of a thoroughgoing examination of the ways in which femininity, and even femaleness, are cultural constructs which may or may not be taken up by any given individual.
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