Asserting a feminine Other structurally produces Manichaean moral systems hostile to woman.

Evidence

To posit the Other is to define Manichaeism. This is why religions and their codes treat woman with such hostility. By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 169

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Other and the Manichaeism that logically follows from positing alterity.
• XREF: connects to: Woman’s contradictory image stems from being man’s inessential Other — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 413; Women’s emancipation increased male hostility rather than reducing it. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 298; The idealized feminine sign masks a real tyranny of property and propriety. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 551

Broader Connections

• Woman’s contradictory image stems from being man’s inessential Other #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 413
• Women’s emancipation increased male hostility rather than reducing it. #exemplifies (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 298