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Comment: “Woman has always been man’s dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shared the world in equality.” (Simone de Beauvoir)

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  • Political Ideologies

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The line comes from the Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949), in H. M. Parshley's 1953 English translation; the French original says woman has been, if not man's slave, at least his vassal. It is a historical verdict serving as the premise of an existentialist question: what produces so…

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