The category of the Other precedes and enables material oppression, not vice versa

Evidence

Had there not been in human consciousness both the original category of the Other and an original claim to domination over the Other, the discovery of the bronze tool could not have brought about woman’s oppression. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core concept of the Other as a primary category of consciousness that precedes economic arrangements.
• XREF: The absolute core thesis of the book, argued here against Marxists; foundational to the whole feminist-existentialist apparatus. — connects to: The other must be given before objects can appear as manufactured. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1039; Resistance to oppression also creates social categories of difference; Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 293 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #exemplifies (0.88)
• Racial categories were administratively imposed rather than biologically fixed #exemplifies (0.85) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216
• The pauper category policed racial standing rather than measuring material want #exemplifies (0.85) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 921
• Logical categories mirror social hierarchy and division of labor, not solidarity #corroborates (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43
• Ideology is shaped within material institutions, not by class or economics. #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 129
• Ideological categories are not bipolar but require structurally distinct explanatory determinants. #corroborates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2047
• Resistance to oppression also creates social categories of difference #complicates (0.80)
• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #expands (0.80)
• The oppressed must reach conviction as Subjects, not receive it as objects #expands (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 171
• Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 293
• The Other-as-look resists being derived from one’s own consciousness or categories #complicates (0.75)