THE SECOND SEX

ARISTOTLE: The female is female by virtue of a certain

lack of qualities We should regard women’s nature as
suffering from natural defectiveness

ST.THOMAS: Woman is an incomplete man, an

incidental being

 Genesis story: Eve appears as if drawn from

Adam’s supernumerary bone (Bossuet ‘s
word: French theologian)
 An accessory bone or supernumerary
bone is a bone that is not normally present
in the body

Monsier Benda : Uriel’s report: A man’s body has

meaning by itself whereas the woman’s body seems
devoid of meaning without reference to the male