3. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ELISABETH BADINTER
• She Came to Stay • Dead End Feminism
• Mother Love: Myth and Reality:
Motherhood in Modern History
• Existentialist Ethics
• XY: In Masculine Identity
•Les Temps Modernes
• Emilie, Emilie, Emilie: L’ ambition
feminine au XVIII siecle (French Edition)
• The Mandarins
• The Unopposite Sex: The End of the
• The Second Sex Gender Battle
• The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood
Undermines the Status of Women
4. •One is not born, but rather becomes, a - The most beautiful discovery that true
woman. friends make is that they can grow
• Man is defined as a human being and a separately without growing apart.
woman as a female - whenever she - As far as service goes, it can take the
behaves as a human being she is said to form of a million things. To do service,
imitate the male. you don't have to be a doctor working in
• To catch a husband is an art; to hold the slums for free, or become a social
him is a job. worker. Your position in life and what
• The word love has by no means the you do doesn't matter as much as how
same sense for both sexes, and this is you do what you do.
one cause of the serious
misunderstandings that divide them.
5. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ELISABETH BADINTER
- de Beauvoir’s effort to locate the • The Conflict: How Modern
source of these profoundly imbalanced Motherhood Undermines the Status of
gender roles. Women
-Man occupies the role of the self, or -French mothers enjoy some pretty
subject; woman is the object, the great work-family protections, which
other. permit them to keep their public and
- Throughout history, maternity has professional selves vibrantly alive after
been both worshipped and reviled: the they have children.
mother both brings life and heralds - “the ideal mother is enmeshed with
death. her child bodily and mentally”.
-De Beauvoir insists on the - “nonchalant approach to
impossibility of comparing the motherhood” — which she dates to the
“character” of men and women without once widespread practice in France of
considering the immense differences in sending newborns away to distant wet
their situation. nurses (in whose care they often died).
6. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ELISABETH BADINTER
• The Second Sex • The Conflict: How Modern
-Simone believed that women are not Motherhood Undermines the Status
born as women. They are being of Women
shaped by the society. -Elisabeth believed that women, once
- Women should not just be rear and have children, must rear and
imprisoned to motherhood once they breastfeed them properly through
rear and have children because they’re them as mothers.
bound to enter politics, technological - Women once rear their children,
works, and other jobs that they could must both be “mothers” and
explore their abilities. “women” themselves. They must
enjoy themselves as mothers, and at
the same time, have fun by exploring
their personalities and abilities.
7. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THESE
TWO RELATED FEMINISTS
AND INFLUENTIAL
INTELLECTS AND
PHILOSOPHERS IN FRANCE
IS THE EQUALITY OF
WOMEN TO MEN BY
CHANGING THE NOTION OF
THE PAST THAT WOMEN
DESERVE TO BE THE
SECOND BEST.
