Women’s literature aims at lucidity rather than polemical demands.

Evidence

I said that there are more essential problems; but this one still has a certain importance from our point of view: How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them? It is striking that most feminine literature is driven today by an attempt at lucidity more than by a will to make demands; coming out of an era of muddled controversy, this book is one attempt among others to take stock of the current state. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the book’s project as diagnosis over demand, connecting to the stated reading purpose of existentialist analysis of woman-as-Other. — connects to: Difference-based feminist critique aims at less dualistic culture, not traditional roles — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 305
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Difference-based feminist critique aims at less dualistic culture, not traditional roles — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 305