bell jar

1. Love Hurts

2. A theme of confusion, and not knowing what is really going on.

3. Woman treated as Other

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

This is an annotation that strides away from the Vogler Reading, and is based on Simone de Beauviors Introduction :Woman as Other to The Second Sex. De Beauvior gives a historical account of the position (or lack there of) of women in society throughout time, and how they had to fight for what they had or were all given what they got. De Beauvior does a good job of alienating the subculture of 'feminism' from mainstream society, constantly classifying themselves with the 'negroes' and "jews". She continues to ask questions about what is a women, and i think this is very intriguing to the reader. it keeps you holding on til the introduction is over, kind of hoping that with all her questions she will have an answer.
I really enjoyed this reading because as a sociologu major i have done some work on women being oppressed by men, and what the definition of a woman is. For an independent study last year i spend the summer compiling over 700 magazine ads either depicting men or women, and how they were placed to determined what ideas of masculinity and feminity are being presented to society. My work concluded what i expected, that women assume a subordinate role in the majority of magazine advertisements depicting both sexes, and that in ads only depicting women, they were constantly in reclining positions (such as lying on the bed) things that men are rarely if ever shown doing. based on the writing and the terms 'negroes' and 'jews' i am going to make the assumption that it was written a while back.
i liked this introduction, but i found it to be somewhat confusing at times and seemingly repetetive. Maybe it is only because i have dealt with the subject of injustice much before, but i just felt like the same thing was getting said over and over again. i am not sure if i would classify woman as other though.