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junyan's review against another edition
2.0
Who says this book is radical? Did we even read the same book? 观点过于陈旧过于so-called liberal：我不认为男性具有生理上的优势，我也不认为父权对一方反噬会在任何程度上超越父权对另一方的压迫。女人的行动从来只不过是象征性的骚动，她们只挣到男人肯让给她们的东西，她们什么也没有夺取到：她们接受。她们没有自己的过去、没有自己的历史、没有自己的宗教，不群居，共同利益被掩盖。在父权制面前，连资本主义也自叹不如、自认摇摇欲坠、自愧每个毛孔留的血还不够多不够浓。什么时候Women of the world unite才能实现。Part2比part1好一点（但英文版似乎没有划分）。我还是那个观点，比起对女性，父权制对男性的压迫不值一提。这种如瘙痒般的压迫是男性共同维护的不平衡制度带来的反噬，这样的压迫会带给他们多得多的利益。
junyan's review against another edition
1.0
有些观点过于陈旧过于so-called liberal：我不认为男性具有毫无前提的生理上的优势，我也不认为父权对一方反噬会在任何程度上超越父权对另一方的压迫。女人的行动从来只不过是象征性的骚动，她们只挣到男人肯让给她们的东西，她们什么也没有夺取到：她们接受。她们没有自己的过去、没有自己的历史、没有自己的宗教，不群居，共同利益被掩盖。在父权制面前，连资本主义也自叹不如、自认摇摇欲坠、自愧每个毛孔留的血还不够多不够浓。什么时候Women of the world unite才能实现
leonormsousa's review
Will come back later. Reading too many scientific stuff and need a break from that type of writing.
mrbear's review against another edition
2.0
As a fundimental feminist text, this was actually a surprisingly interesting read. I disagreed with so much of it. Mostly I don't support the general idea that "liberty" and "what is natural" is always positive. In my opinion, women by nature of their biological position are always at a slight physical and general disadvantage (based on their need to undergo pregnancy, for example). Creating a system in which this basic problem is removed is an important step, but to call this new system "natural" was frustrating to me. This is not "liberation" in the sense that she means it, but the creation of equality. It is not our social systems that cause inequality, but biology. Our social systems must correct for biological inequity, and blaming them for causing or widening the biological issues is sort of silly. Not to mention that I felt her entire interpretation of the biological differences were silly (men and women put in an equal amount of effort in the creation of a child? really?).
joshlegere's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
kcrawfish's review against another edition
5.0
An answer to the despondent highschooler, sitting on the floor of my brothers room, asking why there were no great women philosophers as widely-known and referenced as Aristotle or Nietzche.
This is a tackling of the history of woman, her biology, body, advantages, limitations, disadvantages, the courtesan, the prostitute, the mother, the daughter, the adolescent, the asexual, the sexual, and where she’s sat in society, viewed as the ‘other’ and ‘object’ to the extent that it hurts both herself and men. Published in 1949, I like to think significant progress has been made, and yet I’m still floored by the relevance and meaning of this book.
Great texts on humanity sometimes are in a grey area, where mankind instead means “man”. This text on women positions women as a necessary equal rather than the exploited, necessarily parasitic being she becomes without freedom and the ability to be subject in her life rather than object.
I wish there were an updated chapter with modernity taken into context, to see how well de Beauvoir thought we were fairing.
I would also appreciate a general update of facts and statistics. In 1949, gynecologist believed 80% of patients had no physical defect when they came in with a complaint, which we know today to be the fault of the physician rather than a truth. Even until recently, male bodies were presented in med school as “the human body” and women were then taught as the deviation.
This is a tackling of the history of woman, her biology, body, advantages, limitations, disadvantages, the courtesan, the prostitute, the mother, the daughter, the adolescent, the asexual, the sexual, and where she’s sat in society, viewed as the ‘other’ and ‘object’ to the extent that it hurts both herself and men. Published in 1949, I like to think significant progress has been made, and yet I’m still floored by the relevance and meaning of this book.
Great texts on humanity sometimes are in a grey area, where mankind instead means “man”. This text on women positions women as a necessary equal rather than the exploited, necessarily parasitic being she becomes without freedom and the ability to be subject in her life rather than object.
I wish there were an updated chapter with modernity taken into context, to see how well de Beauvoir thought we were fairing.
I would also appreciate a general update of facts and statistics. In 1949, gynecologist believed 80% of patients had no physical defect when they came in with a complaint, which we know today to be the fault of the physician rather than a truth. Even until recently, male bodies were presented in med school as “the human body” and women were then taught as the deviation.