Traditional marriage confines woman to immanence and denies her transcendence

Evidence

The male’s vocation is action; he needs to produce, fight, create, progress, go beyond himself toward the totality of the universe and the infinity of the future; but traditional marriage does not invite woman to transcend herself with him; it confines her in immanence. She has no choice but to build a stable life where the present, prolonging the past, escapes the threats of tomorrow, that is, precisely to create a happiness. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core existentialist-feminist apparatus: immanence vs. transcendence instantiated concretely in the marriage contract — exactly the foundational definitional content this reader wants.
• XREF: Direct payoff of the Sartrean freedom/facticity and Hegelian dialectic setup in earlier chapters; woman’s Otherness is here produced by confinement to immanence. — connects to: Poetic tradition reduces woman’s body to a natural landscape for man to possess.; Blocked transcendence leaves woman unable to be defined by her acts — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 662; Women of Bashkirtseff’s era could only advance socially through marriage. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 891 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Marriage makes woman contingent while man mediates her to the universe #corroborates (0.88) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196
• Marriage denies woman the particularity of desire that man retains as citizen #corroborates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1135
• Granting woman freedom while denying her transcendence yields only negative freedom #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406
• The wife reduces the man to bodily presence to deny his transcendence #contradicts (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1316
• Exalting woman spiritually sanctions her earthly subordination rather than liberating her #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 591