Beauvoir structures her feminist argument as a biblical fall-and-redemption narrative

Evidence

Beauvoir begins her narrative, like the author of Genesis, with a fall into knowledge. The two volumes that elaborate on the consequences of that fall are the Old and New Testaments of an unchosen people with a history of enslavement. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 14

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s foundational Continental reading — the fall-into-knowledge structure echoes Genesis and prefigures how Beauvoir’s dialectic works (myth, lived experience, redemption), useful when teaching the book’s architecture. — connects to: Black Baptist women invoked biblical heroines to justify denominational gender parity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 594; Feminist theology sought to reform religion rather than reject it. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 640
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black Baptist women invoked biblical heroines to justify denominational gender parity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 594; Feminist theology sought to reform religion rather than reject it. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 640