Females uniquely experience their own bodies as alienated otherness

Evidence

But it nevertheless remains true that both a mind without a body and an immortal man are strictly inconceivable” (SS, 7). Th ere is a profound union between mind and body. Man is his body. Is woman her body? Beauvoir hesitates here because of all the meaning that sexual diff erentiation acquires as human beings perform their tasks for the species. Th e male is his body and never feels alienated from it. Th e female, however, sees her body taken by the male, “violated [the French violée is better translated as “raped”], the female is then alienated- she becomes, in part, another than herself. She carries the fetus inside her abdomen… . Tenanted by another, who battens upon her substance throughout the period of pregnancy, the female is at once herself and other than herself” (SS, 22). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 110

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concepts about my body only signify, never deliver, its lived self-alienation; Species reproduction increasingly alienates the female as individuality increases — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 96; Girls experience their bodies as sexless plenitude, not as lack. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 683 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Feminine presentation is coerced self-objectification in disguise #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 900
• One’s own body is lived as self, not experienced as an object. #contradicts (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 733
• Woman’s contradictory image stems from being man’s inessential Other #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 413
• Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation #corroborates (0.75)
• Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures #qualifies (0.72)