Genesis encodes woman as derived, destined for man, never autonomous

Evidence

Eve was not formed at the same time as man; she was not made either from a different substance or from the same clay that Adam was modeled from: she was drawn from the first male’s flank. Even her birth was not autonomous; God did not spontaneously choose to create her for herself and to be directly worshipped in turn: he destined her for man; he gave her to Adam to save him from loneliness, her spouse is her origin and her finality; she is his complement in the inessential mode. Thus, she appears a privileged prey. She is nature raised to the transparency of consciousness; she is a naturally submissive consciousness. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 319

Categorization

• DEFINE: Analyzes the Genesis myth as the founding cultural template for woman as inessential Other.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s moral-panics and dress-norms readings on how foundational myths encode gender hierarchy. — connects to: Aquinas defined woman as a failed, incomplete man living under male authority — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 204; Patriarchal mythology projects its own values onto woman and calls imposed immanence her nature — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655

Broader Connections

• Patriarchal mythology projects its own values onto woman and calls imposed immanence her nature #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655