About the justifications and the bad faith in The Second Sex of Simone de Beauvoir

• Grant number: 11/16012-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Franklin Leopoldo e Silva
• Grantee: Elis Joyce Gunella
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project intends to analyze Simone de Beauvoir´s The Second Sex, aiming to understand why "bad-faith" consists in the resulting practice of the mistaken use of the freedom by women, in answer to the situation they´re circumscribed. By observing the argumentations and the way taken by the author, it´s a matter of identifying, in the entirety of the work, the categories that constitute the Feminineness as cultural construction, and that define in a singular way women´s situation and character. These categories historically condition the female of the human species to habits and manners which turn her into a second sex, grantee object to serve men´s moral and ontological pretensions. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GUNELLA, Elis Joyce. Ontology and ethics in Simone de Beauvoir´s The Second Sex. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.