Authentic freedom, not biology, validates maternity in Beauvoir’s ethics

Evidence

Beauvoir does not say that a woman who decides freely to become a mother is less of a woman than the one who refuses to perform her biological task as defi ned by the species. On the contrary, she wishes that every woman who becomes a mother does so from a free authentic decision. Only then will pregnancy and motherhood be a valid ethical choice for the woman. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links to the reader’s interest in Beauvoir-Sartre authorship and the ethical framework of The Second Sex. — connects to: Beauvoir saw motherhood as a threat to a woman’s integrity