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Feminist

?The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides?? ? Unknown author. I received this poem in an email from my mother. The reason I chose to begin my paper with it ? is because I feel that it sums up how I feel that every independent woman should feel when stepping foot in this world today. By looking at Simone de Beauvoir?s Second Sex (Introduction), with a portion of John Berger?s Ways of Seeing but more specifically John Edgar Wideman?s Weight we can examine the early studies of women and their role in society helping us to build the foundations of the modern movement. A movement for altering gender equality, and the intellectual understanding of the dilemmas of women.
In Simone de Beauvoir famous book, Second Sex: Introduction, women are the second sex coincidently, or to be considered outcasts i...

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