Read Beauvior’s article and answer the question: Choose one question to answer from the four!!!!

Word count: 350, Include at least one quotation from the reading that is accompanied by the page number and a brief explanation of the quotation, Thank you

1. According to Beauvoir, women are born into a situation in which they are deemed inferior, inessential beings. Explain two of Beauvoir’s reasons for making this claim. Even though she wrote The Second Sex nearly 70 years ago, do you still think her argument applies to the situation of women? Give an example.

2. How does Beauvoir explain the concept of the Subject/Other? Why is this notion central to her argument? Why are some ways that women today are still “othered” by men?

3. Both Beauvoir and Sartre discuss the importance of freedom. Using Sartre’s discussion of humans as free beings in “Existentialism is a Humanism” and Beauvoir’s essay explain how and in what ways women are both free and not free?

4. Consider these questions: why does society most often use the word “mankind” to refer to “human kind”? What do you think of when you hear the word “mankind”? What do you think of when you hear the word “womankind”? Why can’t the word “womankind” be used to represent humankind? Why can the word “mankind” be used to represent humankind