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2. “And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
Simone de Beauvoir
Femininity Question, Gender Roles, Philosophical Identity, Feminist Inquiry, Social Constructs, Womanhood
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2. “And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
Simone de Beauvoir Femininity Question, Gender Roles, Philosophical Identity, Feminist Inquiry, Social Constructs, Womanhood
