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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She is primarily known for her 1949 treatise, The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. ... The First major premise of The Second Sex is that man, considering himself as the essential being, or subject, has treated woman as the unessential being, or object. ... For every subject, there must be an object. ... The Second Sex. ...

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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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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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Initially in The Piano Ada is the object of Baines gaze, as he watches her play the piano and project sexual fantasies onto her. ... Campion again destroys the active/passive split when Ada's husband locks her up after witnessing her have sex with Baines. ... Baines on the other hand, knew he could not possess, control and treat Ada as an object and opened up to her and her desires. ...

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"Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children." ... MacKinnon feels that pornography defames women as a group, teaching men to view women as sexual objects, and a gender and not as people. ...

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