For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The Second Sex

by De Beauvoir, Simone (1989)

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For the majority of laborers, labor is today a thankless drudgery, but in the case of woman this is not compensated for by a definite conquest of her social dignity, her freedom of behaviour, or her economic independence (p.137)

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