Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 5, “The Analogical Approach: ‘There are deep analogies between the situations of women and blacks,’ ” gives a close textual analysis of the use of the race/gender analogy and other comparative and competing frameworks of oppression in The Second Sex. The following arguments are made: (1) Beauvoir’s comparative and competing frameworks of oppression pose at least two problems—on the one hand, she collapses diverse systems of oppression as the same, and on the other hand, she also attempts to distinguish between these systems of oppression by privileging gender difference and oppression above other forms of identity and oppression; (2) Beauvoir’s utilization of the race/gender analogy omits the experiences and oppressions of Black women and other Women of Color who experience racial and gender oppression simultaneously; and furthermore, (3) even when white feminists critique Beauvoir’s use of analogies and/or other comparative and competing frameworks of oppression, often they do not cite and engage Black and Latina feminists who have taken up these issues in Beauvoir.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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