Housework functions as an endless escape from woman’s own self

Evidence

Housework in fact allows the woman an indefinite escape far from herself. Chardonne rightly remarks: … Here is a meticulous and disordered task, with neither stops nor limits. In the home, a woman certain to please quickly reaches her breaking point, a state of distraction and mental void that effaces her. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1237

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Sartrean bad faith as flight-from-self; buils the ontological point of woman being kept in immanence central to the whole book. — connects to: Reactionary thought explicitly naturalized women’s confinement to housework; Obsessive housework substitutes for emotional and sexual satisfaction — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1230; Domestic activity erases woman’s selfhood by displacing her identity — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1235 (+5 more)
• SEED: Could ground an essay on how ‘busyness’ in modern life functions as the same structure of self-erasure Beauvoir identifies here.

Broader Connections

• Domestic activity erases woman’s selfhood by displacing her identity #corroborates (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1235
• Housework never produces lasting results, trapping women in a perpetual present #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1221
• Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 851