Finding a single historical moment of women’s objectification would not enable their rebellion

Evidence

Women are said to be passive by nature. Th ey are therefore by nature incapable of action— rebellion. Were it simply a matter of women’s mystifi cation, the riddle of why women fail to rebel might be solved and resolved by combing historical archives for the moment when the transformation of women from subject to object occurred. To some extent Beauvoir takes up this quest. She soon discovers, however, that were such a moment to be discovered, it would not create the conditions of solidarity necessary for rebellious action. To understand the complexity of women’s situation, we need to understand the forces at work that sustain women’s otherness, that support their ongoing mystifi cation. Furthermore, we need to understand that, given the unique situation of women as the second sex, the idea of a violent rebellion is unthinkable. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 59

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that diagnosing a transformation point doesn’t generate solidarity parallels Horkheimer/Adorno’s dialectic point that insight alone cannot dissolve domination; also resonates with the Marxism literature on why false consciousness persists. — connects to: Women’s otherness lacks the historical before that enables other groups to rebel — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 58

Broader Connections

• Women’s otherness lacks the historical before that enables other groups to rebel #corroborates (0.90) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 58