Utopian socialism confused female liberation with sexual and mystical roles

Evidence

Under the pretext of considering the couple as the basis of social unity, Père Enfantin tries to introduce a woman into each “director-couple” called the priest-couple; he awaits a better world from a woman messiah, and the Compagnons de la Femme embark for the East in search of this female savior. … He is influenced by Fourier, who confuses the liberation of woman with the restoration of the flesh; Fourier demands the right of all individuals to follow their passionate attractions; he wants to replace marriage with love; he considers the woman not as a person but only in her amorous functions. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how Romantic-era idealization of woman as muse/spiritual force (Hugo, Enfantin) parallels the later critique of the feminine mystique as a form of containment. — connects to: Religious prostitution originally encoded fertility magic before sliding into venality — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 191; Women’s liberation consciousness made the utopia-maternal link explicit in fiction — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 905; Adorno’s weak utopia dissolves fixed social roles rather than institutionalizing them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2559
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Religious prostitution originally encoded fertility magic before sliding into venality — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 191; Women’s liberation consciousness made the utopia-maternal link explicit in fiction — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 905; Adorno’s weak utopia dissolves fixed social roles rather than institutionalizing them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2559