Tag: Simone de Beauvoir
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The Cultural Construction of ‘Woman’ throughout history in Western Art & Literature
For example, in her essay Poses and Passions, Zirka Filipczak reminds us that the poses adopted by men and women in the artwork of the English Renaissance are strategically quite different – whilst men are represented as active (holding a sword, perhaps) and intelligent (hands on a stack of books, for example), women either sit…
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What 21st Century Women Might Learn From Simone de Beauvoir
It is sobering to realise that the immense popularity, especially with younger women, of the feminine paradigm Carrie represents, provides a gauge on how 21st century women view themselves as women.