Abstract
The pivotal theme of Simone de Beauvoir’s magnum
opus, Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) is the idea
that woman in relation to man has positioned herself
secondarily in the lifeworld as the Other of man since
the ancient times and further that this secondary
position of women in the social order is imposed by the
force of the patriarchal atmosphere rather than the
feminine characteristics. Women’s being so defiant
regarding womanhood reflects that their sense of
perpetual femininity is haunting to them and they want
to get rid of it; and this to Beauvoir is in no way an
appropriate attitude of women. In spite of this
nominalistic abstractness she directs herself to the
existentialist transparency of meaning that in the
facticity every human being finds himself or herself a
concrete existent always a singular, separate individual.
Drawing upon this existentialist notion she first defines
the problem of feminism in the nexus of facticity
whereby she further expounds how woman being a foritself (pour-soi) is necessarily related to the in-itself
Natasha Kiran, Abdul Rahim Afaki. (2015) Freedom and the Human Positioning in the Lifeworld: the Transcendence-Immanence Contrast in Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Feminism, Al Tafseer, Volume 25-26, Issue 1 .
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