De Beauvoir on the Other
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Why Men Can't Win on Their Wedding Night
Beauvois is withering about the wish for men to have women who have chosen them, but at the same time to deny them the right to choose. She says it's a trap that has its origin in the fact that men startet out as the ones who claim the right to define istence. And yet, what men want is an object who is also a subject, a woman whom they can control,. But not control so much that they don't also feel that that woman has chosen them.
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