Women’s solidarity remains bounded by their shared captivity to men

Evidence

Together women take revenge on him, set traps for him, malign him, insult him: but they wait for him. As long as they stagnate in the gynaeceum, they bask in contingency, in blandness, in boredom; this limbo has retained some of the warmth of the mother’s breast: but it is still limbo. Woman is content to linger there on condition that she will soon be able to emerge from it. She is thus content enough in the dampness of her bathroom imagining she will later make her entrance into the luminous salon. Women are comrades for each other in captivity, they help each other endure their prison, even prepare their escape: but their liberator will come from the masculine world. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1606

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s earlier immanence/transcendence framework and her split analysis of female solidarity — women unite in gynaeceum but await male liberation, an internal critique of sisterhood. — connects to: Women’s class loyalties fragment them more than shared sex unites them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 277; Women’s isolation from each other blocks recognition that their subjectivity struggles are shared — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 73; Women’s ambivalence about men prevents them from building a solid counter-universe — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1760 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Women’s isolation from each other blocks recognition that their subjectivity struggles are shared #complicates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 73
• Women’s solidarity never becomes real friendship because they remain competitors for male validation. #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1605
• Women’s ambivalence about men prevents them from building a solid counter-universe #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1760