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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Simone de Beauvoir
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
These biological data are of extreme importance: they play an all-important role and are an essential element of woman’s situation: we will be referring to them in all further accounts. Because the body is the instrument of our hold on the world, the world appears different to us depending on how it is grasped, which explains why we have studied these data so deeply; they are one of the keys that enable us to understand woman. But we refuse the idea that they form a fixed destiny for her. They do not suffice to constitute the basis for a sexual hierarchy; they do not explain why woman is the Other; they do not condemn her forever to this subjugated role.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 506 - 512Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022