The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault

Abstract

From Beauvoir’s account in The Second Sex of the upbringing or formation of girls, the chapter extracts her feminist existentialist analysis of the physical and moral orthopedics of girls so as to compare it to Foucault’s historical account in Discipline and Punish of the various forms of discipline that have taken children as objects.

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A Companion to Simone De Beauvoir

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