Confined women can only find freedom by voluntarily embracing their prison

Evidence

As a prisoner, she could only find freedom by choosing her prison. “She accepted M. de Charrière at her side as she accepted the Alps,” says Scott. But she was too lucid not to understand that this resignation was, after all, only deception; she became so withdrawn, so hard, she was thought to be so despairing that she was frightening. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1356

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘freedom by choosing the prison’ anticipates the existentialist paradox of bad faith versus authentic choice - connects directly to Beauvoir’s Sartrean framework and to the stoic precept she cites. — connects to: Granting woman freedom while denying her transcendence yields only negative freedom — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406; A woman’s performed liberation can mask a hidden internalized bondage — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 991; Identity adopted as liberation can harden into a new form of imprisonment — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1078
• DEFINE: Illustrates the existentialist notion that radical choice is possible even under constraint, but that resigning passively is self-deception.

Broader Connections

• Granting woman freedom while denying her transcendence yields only negative freedom #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406
• A woman’s performed liberation can mask a hidden internalized bondage #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 991
• Identity adopted as liberation can harden into a new form of imprisonment #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1078