Domestic hosting offers women a rare domain of creative sovereignty

Evidence

The woman who presides over these mysteries is proud to feel she is the creator of a perfect moment, the dispenser of happiness and gaiety. She is the one bringing the guests together, she is the one making the event take place, she is the gratuitous source of joy and harmony. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1586

Categorization

• XREF: Directly prefigures the concept of women’s ‘situation’ creating pseudo-transcendence within immanence, which Beauvoir articulates more fully in later chapters. — connects to: Domestic cooking offers women a genuine if circumscribed experience of creative power — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1245; Neoliberals gendered welfare dependency as emasculating female domestic servitude — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 177
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Domestic cooking offers women a genuine if circumscribed experience of creative power — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1245; Neoliberals gendered welfare dependency as emasculating female domestic servitude — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 177

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals gendered welfare dependency as emasculating female domestic servitude #complicates (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 177