Beauvoir defines immanence as repetitive domestic labor that produces nothing new.

Evidence

Th e domestic labors that fell to her lot because they were reconcilable with the cares of maternity imprisoned her in repetition and immanence; they were repeated from day to day in an identical form, which was perpetuated without change from century to century; they produced nothing new. (SS, 63; emphasis added) Th e principal obstacle that motherhood presents to the free pursuit of transcendence is not the care of children itself (for childrearing can enable women to create relatively durable human beings) but the tendency of motherhood to relegate women to activities of immanence in the private realm. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 606

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the precise textual anchor for what Beauvoir means by immanence in The Second Sex — repetition that produces nothing new.
• XREF: connects to: Immanence is defined by futility, not by repetition or lack of creativity. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 598