The Second Sex Does Not End With Socialism

De beauvois treats the starlinest constitution of the soviet union as though it were a model for male emancipation. And then she acknowledges, because this is 19 forty nine, and the second wold war has been and gone, that those rights enshrined in the constitution were just paper rights. They vanished on the wind as soon as the state demanded something else. When it became clear during the second world war that what the state needed more than anything else was simply more reproduction, it suddenly became the job of women to revert back to their traditional roles. All those rights were abolished. Abortion was outlawed. Women were meant to breed. They became breeding machines for the state.