The home becomes woman’s refuge that renders the outside world unreal

Evidence

But she is going to make every attempt to refuse this limitation. She encloses faraway countries and past times within her four walls in the form of more or less expensive earthly flora and fauna; she encloses her husband, who personifies human society for her, and the child who gives her the whole future in a portable form. The home becomes the center of the world and even its own one truth; as Bachelard appropriately notes, it is “a sort of counteror exclusionary universe”;*refuge, retreat, grotto, womb, it protects against outside dangers: it is this confused exteriority that becomes unreal. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1203

Categorization

• XREF: Bachelard’s Poetics of Space is invoked; also the domestic-universe idea neatly parallels Jane Eyre’s Thornfield as a bounded world. — connects to: The need for a protected home refuge is primal and innate — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1521
• DEFINE: Clarifies how the married woman compensates for immanence by enclosing future, society, and world inside the home.