COMPARISON OF PHILOSOPHERS 20th century SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR & ELISABETH BADINTER

3. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ELISABETH BADINTER
• She Came to Stay • Dead End Feminism
• Mother Love: Myth and Reality:
Motherhood in Modern History
• Existentialist Ethics
• XY: In Masculine Identity
•Les Temps Modernes
• Emilie, Emilie, Emilie: L’ ambition
feminine au XVIII siecle (French Edition)
• The Mandarins
• The Unopposite Sex: The End of the
• The Second Sex Gender Battle
• The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood
Undermines the Status of Women

4. •One is not born, but rather becomes, a - The most beautiful discovery that true
woman. friends make is that they can grow
• Man is defined as a human being and a separately without growing apart.
woman as a female - whenever she
behaves as a human being she is said to - As far as service goes, it can take the
imitate the male. form of a million things. To do
• To catch a husband is an art; to hold service, you don't have to be a doctor
him is a job. working in the slums for free, or become
• The word love has by no means the a social worker. Your position in life and
same sense for both sexes, and this is what you do doesn't matter as much as
one cause of the serious how you do what you do.
misunderstandings that divide them.

5. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ELISABETH BADINTER
• The Second Sex • The Conflict: How Modern
-Simone believed that women are not Motherhood Undermines the Status
born as women. They are being of Women
shaped by the society. -Elisabeth believed that women, once
- Women should not just be rear and have children, must rear and
imprisoned to motherhood once they breastfeed them properly through
rear and have children because they’re them as mothers.
bound to enter politics, technological - Women once rear their children,
works, and other jobs that they could must both be “mothers” and
explore their abilities. “women” themselves. They must
enjoy themselves as mothers, and at
the same time, have fun by exploring
their personalities and abilities.

6. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THESE
TWO RELATED FEMINISTS,
AND INFLUENTIAL
INTELLECTUALS AND
PHILOSOPHERS IN FRANCE,
IS THE EQUALITY OF
WOMEN TO MEN BY
CHANGING THE NOTION OF
THE PAST THAT WOMEN
ONLY DESERVE TO BE THE
SECOND BEST.

7. SOURCES AND REFERENCES
 http://womenshistory.about.com/od/simonedebeauvoir/a/simone-de-
beauvoir-second-wave.htm
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/conflict-
and-the-condemnation-of-modern-parenting-elisabeth-badinter-
elaborates/2012/04/24/gIQA1iLLfT_blog.html

http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/As_far_as_service_goes
%2C_it_can_take_the_form_of_a_million_things._To_do_service
%2C_you_don%27t_have_to_b/130757/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/simone_de_beauvo
ir.html
 www.wikipedia.com
 http://www.themonthly.com.au/elisabeth-badinter-s-conflict-woman-
and-mother-children-s-lib-anne-manne-4658