In "The Second Sex" Simone de Beauvoir classifies women as the second sex because of their relation to men. ... de Beauvoir believes the world is designed with man as the "subject" and "woman" as the object or man acts and woman is acted upon. The "subject" (man) is also known as the "one" and the "object" (woman) is also known as the "other". ... Biological determinism can be simply summed up as "women is a womb" (de Beauvoir, 161), it is the thinking that women is suppose to act as a vessel or "object" the reproduces and is seen as sex. ... For him she is sex-absolute sex, no less" (de Beauv...

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In the Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir argues that "Women are not born, but made", which is also questionable. ... The Second Sex can be read in the most varied languages of the most varied cultures. ... The human culture, writes Simone de Beauvoir, has given supremacy to the sex that hunts and kills, and not to the one that gives birth, to masters of nature and not to the natural functions. ... In this point, men identify themselves as subject and women are object. ... We can say men not equal to not-women; or there is no existence of subject and object between men and women because everything...

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This scene tries to blur the lines between the sexes. ... In the film the difference between the sexes will be removed. ... Ripley serves as a good feminist hero, not showing to much skin or shown as a sex appeal. ... Where they are at in the ship there a pictures of naked women in the back ground, suggesting women are nothing more than objects. ... Also to objectify Ripley as just a sexual object. ...

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It was the same kind of unconscious thought that made man for many centuries see the sun only as a bright object that revolved around the earth. ... As the stages move on the male and female both develop the Oedipus Complex, this is when the child see the parent of the opposite sex and want to take his/ her place. ... Whatever Freud's opinions may have been in the matter of American Feminisms, there were many indications in his writing and attitude, that he did not regard the male sex as the lords of creation, nor did he describe his view of the female sex as having their main functi...

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Women seen as objects. ... In the absence of other traits, a woman wearing a bathing suit might not be coded as a sex object while a fully clothed woman in a suggestive pose could be considered a sex object.... I plan on becoming a mother some day and I don't want my children to believe it is wrong to have breast but that they are ok to have if they are used as a sexual object. ...

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Ironically, this feminist woman died at the guillotine herself, having (as the newspapers explained) "forgotten the virtues suited to her sex"." ... The author states that women in the modern society are still viewed as sex objects. Women are pressured to have sex, which Sidel states is a "treacherous mine field." ...

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The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pointed out, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her- (Eisenberg 2). ... As Allende's Eva Luna summed it up, "Sex without love makes me melancholy- (Allende 248). ... As Anna Quindlen comments, "Boys could have it [sex]; girls couldn't. ...

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"Woolf's main object was to use the stream of consciousness poetically and to integrate it into the design as whole in conjunction with other images." ... To discover that Woolf believes men and women should share a complex view of reality, one as free as possible from the parochialism of any single sex is not to discover anything very new about her work. ...

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