Society sacrifices married women to private property while recognizing their full capacities elsewhere.

Evidence

Thus marital power outlives the feudal regime. The paradox still being perpetuated today is established: the woman most fully integrated into society is the one with the fewest privileges in the society. … It is in the interest of property that the nobility and the bourgeoisie demand one master to administer it. The wife is not subordinated to the husband because she is judged basically incapable: when nothing else prevents it, woman’s full capacities are recognized. From feudality to today, the married woman is deliberately sacrificed to private property. β€” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 210

Categorization

  • DEFINE: States an inverted relationship between social integration and privilege β€” a structural paradox central to the immanence/transcendence apparatus.
  • XREF: connects to: The advent of private property converted woman from sacred being into owned property β€” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 167

Broader Connections