On being and becoming a woman: de Beauvoir, Butler and Kristeva
October 2nd, 2006
One is not born a woman, but rather one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
How can one become a woman if one wasn’t a woman all along?
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)
The belief that “one is a woman” is almost as absurd and obscurantist as the belief that “one is a man”.
Julia Kristeva, Woman Can Never Be Defined (1980)
On being and becoming a woman: de Beauvoir, Butler and Kristeva
October 2nd, 2006
One is not born a woman, but rather one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
How can one become a woman if one wasn’t a woman all along?
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)
The belief that “one is a woman” is almost as absurd and obscurantist as the belief that “one is a man”.
Julia Kristeva, Woman Can Never Be Defined (1980)
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