Female emancipation will not produce uniformity between the sexes

Evidence

For example, nothing seems more questionable to me than a catchphrase that dooms the new world to uniformity and then to boredom. I do not see an absence of boredom in this world of ours nor that freedom has ever created uniformity. First of all, certain differences between man and woman will always exist; her eroticism, and thus her sexual world, possessing a singular form, cannot fail to engender in her a sensuality, a singular sensitivity: her relation to her body, to the male body, and to the child will never be the same as those man has with his body, with the female body, and with the child; those who talk so much about “equality in difference” would be hard put not to grant me that there are differences in equality. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1981

Categorization

• XREF: Preempts the ‘sameness vs. difference’ feminism debate; resonates with later French feminism (Irigaray, Cixous) on difference. — connects to: Frontier necessity raised women’s value but did not overturn male command of society — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 280; Abstract rights alone cannot guarantee women a concrete hold on the world — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 292; Comparing men’s and women’s lived positions is meaningless because their situations differ fundamentally — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1769 (+2 more)