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    De Beauvoir – The Second Sex

    The Goal is: to define femininity

    - Women are “the other”

    The Other:
    - Women
    - Racial minorities
    - Religious minorities

    What do they share?


    - Systematic oppression
    - Systematic inferiority

    The Independent Woman:


    - To be a complete individual, equal to man, women have to have equal access to the
    man’s world
    o “she wants to live both like a man and like a woman”

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