The Second Sex
by De Beauvoir, Simone (2011)
Key Passage
to give birth and to breast-feed are not activities but natural functions; they do not involve a project, which is why the woman finds no motive there to claim a higher meaning for her existence; she passively submits to her biological destiny. Because housework alone is compatible with the duties of motherhood, she is condemned to domestic labor, which locks her into repetition and immanence; day after day it repeats itself in identical form from century to century; it produces nothing new. (p.68)
Keywords
Gender, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Women, Womens Work, Reproduction, Biology, Maternal Work, De Beauvoir, SocialismCitation
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