woman, too, is aware of her own consciousness, or ego. But it is striking
that he deliberately takes a man's point of view, disregarding the reciprocity of subject and object. When he writes that
woman is mystery, he implies that she is mystery for man. Thus his description, which is intended to be objective, is in
fact an assertion of masculine privilege
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duality was not originally attached to the division of the sexes; it was not dependent upon any empirical facts.
It is revealed in such…
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