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The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field. Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and Mainstreaming. Each of the entries: • begins with a concise definition • outlines the history of each term and the debates surrounding it • includes illustrations of how the concept has been applied within the field • offers examples which allow a critical re-evaluation of the concept • is cross-referenced with the other key concepts • ends with guidance on further reading. A must-buy for undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science and humanities disciplines.
(The) Other
(The) Other
As used by the French writer Simone de Beauvoir, the concept of ‘the Other’ describes women’s status in patriarchal, androcentric cultures. Whilst men are ‘the One’ (in other words, beings in and of themselves), women are ‘the Other’, beings defined only in relation to men. A woman, de Beauvoir wrote, is ‘defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute – she is the Other’ ([1953] 1997: 16).
de Beauvoir’s ideas on women as the Other were set out in The Second Sex (first published in English in 1953). Drawing on the philosophical arguments of Hegel and Sartre, de ...
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