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bearcatbookworm 's review for:
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
"Those who have an interest in perpetuating the present always shed tears for the marvelous past about to disappear."
"Between those who sell themselves through prostitution and those who sell themselves through marriage, the only difference resides in the price and length of the contract."
"The men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war. If this is morality, then what kind of morality is it?"
"The same societies so determined to defend the rights of the fetus show no interest in children after they are born; instead of trying to reform this scandalous institution called public assistance, society prosecutes abortionists; those responsible for delivering orphans to torturers are left free; society closes its eyes to the horrible tyranny practiced in the private homes of child abusers; and while it refuses to accept that the fetus belongs to the mother carrying it, it nevertheless agrees that the child is his parents' thing."
It's mindboggling and disappointing that de Beauvoir's research and documentation of feminism in the 1940s could be ripped from the pages of culture and society today. An excellent companion read to Feminine Mystique, both remind of the oppression behind us and the work still ahead.
"Between those who sell themselves through prostitution and those who sell themselves through marriage, the only difference resides in the price and length of the contract."
"The men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war. If this is morality, then what kind of morality is it?"
"The same societies so determined to defend the rights of the fetus show no interest in children after they are born; instead of trying to reform this scandalous institution called public assistance, society prosecutes abortionists; those responsible for delivering orphans to torturers are left free; society closes its eyes to the horrible tyranny practiced in the private homes of child abusers; and while it refuses to accept that the fetus belongs to the mother carrying it, it nevertheless agrees that the child is his parents' thing."
It's mindboggling and disappointing that de Beauvoir's research and documentation of feminism in the 1940s could be ripped from the pages of culture and society today. An excellent companion read to Feminine Mystique, both remind of the oppression behind us and the work still ahead.