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De Beauvoir on the Other

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Is There Choice When It Comes to Men and Women?

Neither the workers nor the jews are like women and women alike neither, says de beauvoir. And then there's the fact that these other kinds of oppression are ones that seem to allow for more choice. You can try an escape from the class as a member of that class. But you can also try to abolish the class. If you are one of the oppressors, if you are a capitalist, if own a business, you can give it up. There is choice. Is there choice when it comes to men and women she thinks not. She says, men have no choice but to be men. Women can't really aspire to abolish men as a class. That argument

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