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(1908-1986)
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
  • (1926-1984)
  • Student Edition

Michel Focault
Truth and Power
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Prepared by SCOTT PARKER AND
ELISSA MERIDA
  • Edited by Dr. Kay Picart, Kristen Millen, and
    Donna Gallagher

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Simone de Beauvoirs life
  • Born January 9, 1908 in Paris
  • Close relationship with both parents
  • 1929 Attended Sorbonne
  • Met Jean-Sarte, models a lot of work from him

4
Simone de Beauvoirs life
  • Leading feminist and proponent of existentialism
  • French Essayist and novelist
  • Taught at a number of schools(1931-43)

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The Second Sex and Feminism
  • Published in 1949
  • Most famous and scandalous work
  • Radically establishes prevalent perspectives of
    masculinity and feminity
  • Massive work, two volumes , totals over 1,000
    pages and sold 22,000 copies in the first week of
    publication

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How the The Second Sex Was Received
  • Invoked what kind of response?
  • First dismissed as
  • How was Beauvoir was labeled?

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Background information onThe Second Sex
  • Gendered the...
  • Insists women must/can

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Myths according to authors
  • Motherlant believes transcendence is
  • Breton opposite of Montherlant venerates which
    gender? Because?
  • Lawrence places transcendence in

9
Myth and Realitykey points
  • Myth of real woman and Eternal Feminine
  • Whole range of contradictory characteristics are
    attributed to women(healer and witch, Madonna and
    whore)
  • All ambivalent feelings evoked in man by nature
    have been projected on woman

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Common Myths
  • Myth of the Feminine mystery
  • What gender is known as inessential other

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Discussion Question
  • According to De Beauvoir,
  • Does a masculine mystery
  • exist?

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In conclusion
  • Idea of true woman is
  • Men are willing to accept women as beings, but
    not
  • What gender remains as inessential?

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Michel Foucault (1926- 1984)
  • Born Poitiers France.
  • Education Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris
    (Philosophy Psychology).
  • Influenced by Nietzsche Heidegger.
  • Challenged ideas of Freud and Marx.
  • Introduced new ideas concerning prisons, police,
    and mentally ill.

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Train of Thought Development
  • 3 Stages
  • Madness and Civilization (1960)
  • The Order of Things (1966)
  • Discipline and Punishment (1975)

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Hard Science vs. Social Science
  • Political and Economic problems
  • Foucault believes that social sciences(Psychiatry
    and Sociology)
  • What were government and citizen ideas on what
    Foucault brought forward?

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17th and 18th Centuries
  • The emergence of Capitalism brought forward the
    ideas of

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Role of the Intellectual Universal
  • Is there room left for Universal Intellectuals?
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