Woman As Other Stephanie Beauvoir Analysis
The author Simone de Beauvoir is a woman that discusses the instances of women being oppressed through history in the story "Woman as Other". She talks about how men have been able to maintain dominant roles in virtually all cultures because women have resigned themselves to, instead of rebelling against, their assigned subordinate status. The author states that men fundamentally oppress women by characterizing them, on every level, as the Other, defined exclusively in opposition to men. Throughout the history, man has been given the role of the self-sufficient. In the other hand, a woman has been always characterized as the object of other. The author considers that the woman’s psychological self is socially constructed. Even in today’s 21st