Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex - Part 2

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Still on Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", we now discuss the second volume where de Beauvoir sets out her main theory of immanence and transcendence. She explains what it means to be truly free as a human being, and how that freedom is often denied women. We also look at Tupac Shakur for some reason.

 

(00:00) Introduction

(00:33) What happened in part 1? 

(01:42) One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. Leaving Freud. 

(03:07) Simone de Beauvoir's view on becoming a woman. Departure from the first wave. 

(05:13) The different stages of becoming and being a woman. 

(06:18) The discovery of the genitalia. The boy and the penis. 

(07:10) Transcendence and Immanence - real freedom and the status quo. 

(07:51) Tupac Shakur and Transcendence versus the housewife and immanence

(11:33) Solutions to the gender problem by Simone de Beauvoir

(12:22) Boys love trucks and women love dolls

(15:28) The reaction to the Second Sex and the ideas of transcendence and immanence

(17:54) Why there aren't many women geniuses according to Simone de Beauvoir