Recognition as a citizen and producer precedes and grounds a man’s worth.

Evidence

The wife is not allowed to do any positive work and consequently to have herself known as a complete person. Regardless of how well she is respected, she is subjugated, secondary, parasitic. The heavy curse weighing on her is that the very meaning of her existence is not in her hands. This is the reason the successes and failures of her conjugal life have much more importance for her than for the man: he is a citizen, a producer, before being a husband; she is above all, and often exclusively, a wife; her work does not extract her from her condition; it is from her condition, on the contrary, that her work derives its price or not. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1255

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Human worth depends on recognition by another person; Being named and hailed by others constitutes one’s identity — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 237; Media cultures measure human worth by wealth and political access. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Human worth depends on recognition by another person #expands (0.85)
• Being named by others can produce the very identity one then inhabits. #expands (0.85)
• Being named and hailed by others constitutes one’s identity #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 237
• Media cultures measure human worth by wealth and political access. #contradicts (0.80)