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Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Cilt: 24 Sayı: 2 30 Eylül 2025
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Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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This study examines Simone De Beauvoir’s theory of women’s status by centralizing her masterpiece, The Second Sex. Here, Beauvoir discusses women’s situation in society existentially and phenomenologically. She concludes that woman problematically seems to be the second sex or the Other in social life. At the end of The Second Sex, Beauvoir offers that if women were economically independent, their social conditions and status would be better. In addition, she suggests some helpful steps to change women's social life situation. Thus, Beauvoir continues, they could be equal to men and have their freedom. Although Beauvoir’s theory maintains its influence with the demand for equality even today, it is argued that it may lose its impact as it holds mostly women responsible for social transformation. It is defended that each individual should embrace basic steps for effective societal transformations. In other words, everyone should accept responsibility for transformation from the beginning. If not, how is it possible to change people’s ideas concerning the status of women? On that point, for a positive understanding of the existence of the Other, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the lived body with its social dimensions is applied. It is seen that his theory can be proposed to every single individual to spread the idea of equality for social transformations. In Merleau-Ponty’s existential and social theory, the relationships between others provide us with the awareness of equality between people and freedom in a relational field. Thus, his theory is introduced to approach the problematic status of women in Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. In this respect, it aims to highlight a theory that acknowledges the other as a valuable and meaningful existence by providing equality and freedom in intersubjective relations.

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Kaynakça

  1. Barral, M. (1969). Merleau-Ponty on the Body. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 7, 171-179.
  2. De Beauvoir, S. (1948). The Second Sex. (translated by. H. M. Parshley). London: Vintage Classics.
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  5. Butler, J. (2012). Sex and Gender in Simone De Beauvoir’s Second Sex Existentialism (ed. T. Staehler, pp. 158-170) . London and New York: Routledge.
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  7. Dolezal, L. (2015). The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

20. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Düşünce Tarihi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

29 Eylül 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Eylül 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

10 Mayıs 2025

Kabul Tarihi

18 Ağustos 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 24 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Arslan, M. (2025). Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, 24(2), 679-709. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1696693
AMA
1.Arslan M. Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kaygı. 2025;24(2):679-709. doi:10.20981/kaygi.1696693
Chicago
Arslan, Merve. 2025. “Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 24 (2): 679-709. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1696693.
EndNote
Arslan M (01 Eylül 2025) Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 24 2 679–709.
IEEE
[1]M. Arslan, “Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty”, Kaygı, c. 24, sy 2, ss. 679–709, Eyl. 2025, doi: 10.20981/kaygi.1696693.
ISNAD
Arslan, Merve. “Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 24/2 (01 Eylül 2025): 679-709. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1696693.
JAMA
1.Arslan M. Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kaygı. 2025;24:679–709.
MLA
Arslan, Merve. “Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, c. 24, sy 2, Eylül 2025, ss. 679-0, doi:10.20981/kaygi.1696693.
Vancouver
1.Merve Arslan. Woman, Otherness, And A Call For Equality: Simone De Beauvoir And Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kaygı. 01 Eylül 2025;24(2):679-70. doi:10.20981/kaygi.1696693

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