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What Is The Main Idea Of The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir

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In Simone de Beauvoir’s work “The Second Sex” she strives to explain why women faced the oppression they did during her time. The first claim de Beauvoir makes is that women were not able to easily come together as one group. Unlike the Jews or black rights activists who were joined by their respective religion and race, women, who occupied many different races, religions and social backgrounds, did not easily form coalitions based solely on their gender. White women cared more about other white women than black women and rich women cared more about other rich women than poor women, according to de Beauvoir. The other main point of “Otherizing” women, was the fact that women were unlikely to ever end their dependency on men. There were few
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