For Beauvoir, erotic flourishing requires prior social and economic liberation of women.

Evidence

However, in order for any human being to be able to fl ourish as an ambiguous being, it is necessary that some social, economic, and cultural changes happen. As she states in her conclusion: “When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the ‘division’ of humanity will reveal its genuine signifi cance and the human couple will fi nd its true form” (SS, 731). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 114

Categorization

• XREF: This materialist precondition thesis distinguishes Beauvoir from Sartre’s more purely ontological ethics — relevant to the influence-direction historiography. — connects to: Even liberated sexuality is absorbed into the system of exploitation — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 340; Women’s liberation depends on liberating all oppressed strata simultaneously — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 16; Women’s economic dependence makes them define themselves through men’s desires. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 298

Broader Connections

• Even liberated sexuality is absorbed into the system of exploitation #complicates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 340
• Women’s economic dependence makes them define themselves through men’s desires. #corroborates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 298
• Women’s liberation depends on liberating all oppressed strata simultaneously #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 16