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" A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. "
Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power
by Kathleen Weiler - 1988 - 174 pages
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Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume II, 1880-1950

Susan G. Bell, Karen M. Offen - 1983 - 500 pages
...would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: "I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology

Dorothy E. Smith - 1987 - 260 pages
...preoccupy intellectual and creative work. Simone de Beauvoir describes the effect for women in this way: A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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Modern Feminisms: Political, Literary, Cultural

Maggie Humm - 1992 - 444 pages
...man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: 'I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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Philosophy of Woman: An Anthology of Classic to Current Concepts

Mary Briody Mahowald - 1994 - 552 pages
...never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.1 But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: "I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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The Continental Philosophy Reader

Richard Kearney, Mara Rainwater - 1996 - 506 pages
...man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: 'I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, Volume 1

Linda J. Nicholson - 1997 - 436 pages
...never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.2 But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: "I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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Women and Autobiography

Martine Watson Brownley, Allison B. Kimmich - 1999 - 242 pages
...development; but she does not admit this difference in The Second Sex. What she says there is, "But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: 'I am a...on this truth must be based all further discussion" (xxvii).12 Moreover, the passage above indicates de Beauvoir's persisting sense that femininity entails...
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In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Marlene LeGates - 2001 - 420 pages
...would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: "I am a...by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The terms masculine and feminine are used symmetrically...
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In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Marlene LeGates - 2001 - 420 pages
...writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must fitst of all say; "I am a woman"; on this truth must be...discussion. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individoal of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. The tenns masculine and feminine...
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What is a Woman?: And Other Essays

Toril Moi - 1999 - 548 pages
...book in France certainly proved her point- 5 But there is more. For Beauvoir's sentence 'But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: "I am a woman"; this truth is the background from which all further claims will stand out', sets up a strong intertextual...
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