- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Identity Crisis
- Lust Horizons: Is the Women’s Movement Pro-Sex?
- Nature’s Revenge
- Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution
- The Last Unmarried Person in America
- Peace in Our Time? The Greening of Betty Friedan
- Marriage on the Rocks
- Putting Women Back in the Abortion Debate
- Looking for Mr. Good Dad
- From Forced Pregnancy to Forced Surgery
- Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex
- Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism
- Feminism Without Freedom
- Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us
- Escape from New York
- The People’s Picasso
- Sins of Confession
- Ministries of Fear
- Exile on Main Street: What the Pollard Case Means to Jews
- The End of Fatherhood: Family Plots
- Andy Warhol, ?-1987
- In Defense of Offense: Salman Rushdie’s Religious Problem
- Beyond Pluralism
- Now, Voyager
- The Drug War: From Vision to Vice
- The Drug War: Hell No, I Won’t Go
- Coming Down Again
- Epilogue: The Neo-Guilt Trip
- Permissions
- Index
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Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us
Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us
- Chapter:
- (p.159) Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us
- Source:
- No More Nice Girls
- Author(s):
Ellen Willis
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter examines Simone de Beauvoir’s impact on feminist politics and feminism more generally. De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, remains the most cogent and thorough book of feminist theory yet written. With its exhaustive portrayal of the ways in which male domination and female subordination penetrate every aspect of everyday life and shape our cultural myths and fantasies, it offers detailed evidence for the basic claims of second wave feminism: that male supremacy is a coherent system of power relations, and that “the personal is political.” De Beauvoir’s influence pervades the early radical feminist critiques of Marxism. It was de Beauvoir who first pointed out the reductionism of Friedrich Engels’s attempt to trace women’s oppression to the formation of classes. She argues that “historical materialism takes for granted facts that call for explanation”.
Keywords: feminist politics, feminism, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, male domination, female subordination, power relations, Marxism, Friedrich Engels, historical materialism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Identity Crisis
- Lust Horizons: Is the Women’s Movement Pro-Sex?
- Nature’s Revenge
- Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution
- The Last Unmarried Person in America
- Peace in Our Time? The Greening of Betty Friedan
- Marriage on the Rocks
- Putting Women Back in the Abortion Debate
- Looking for Mr. Good Dad
- From Forced Pregnancy to Forced Surgery
- Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex
- Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism
- Feminism Without Freedom
- Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us
- Escape from New York
- The People’s Picasso
- Sins of Confession
- Ministries of Fear
- Exile on Main Street: What the Pollard Case Means to Jews
- The End of Fatherhood: Family Plots
- Andy Warhol, ?-1987
- In Defense of Offense: Salman Rushdie’s Religious Problem
- Beyond Pluralism
- Now, Voyager
- The Drug War: From Vision to Vice
- The Drug War: Hell No, I Won’t Go
- Coming Down Again
- Epilogue: The Neo-Guilt Trip
- Permissions
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
