Question

beauvoir the second sex- what does she mean when she says that women are socially interpreted as "the sex"?

Answer 1

Beauvoir strongly states that women are socially constructed as the weaker sex by men. Biologically her position has been lowered by men in the historical past and even in the current days, as a mere passive agent in the process of reproduction. Men always gave women a secondary, inactive and a subordinate position biologically, historically and socially. Men themselves in their selfish pursuit of their dominance and interests kept women in a low profile deliberately instead of giving them equal status. So, inorder to keep up his dominance and status over women, they socially constructed the concept of biological sex and social gender, both of which demean the actual female and women.