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The Sisyphean Torture of Housework: Simone de Beauvoir and Inequitable Divisions of Domestic Work in Marriage

VELTMAN, ANDREA·2004·Hypatia
DOI 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01304.x
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This paper examines Simone de Beauvoir's account of marriage in The Second Sex and argues that Beauvoir's dichotomy between transcendence and immanence can provide an illuminating critique of continuing gender inequities in marriage and divisions of domestic work. Beauvoir's existentialist ethics not only establishes a moral wrong in marriages in which wives perform the second shift of household labor but also supports the need to transform existing normative expectations surrounding wives and domestic work.

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Authors
VELTMAN, A.
Corresponding author
VELTMAN, ANDREA
Venue
Hypatia
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2004-08
Volume
19
Issue
3
Pages
121-143
ISSN
0887-5367 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01304.x
OpenAlex
W2141563493
Cited by
15
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 1
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0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 4048 d)
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  • Hypatia (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
Keywords
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, gender inequality in marriage, division of household labor, second shift, immanence and transcendence, existential ethics, women's domestic labor

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VELTMAN, A. (2004). The Sisyphean Torture of Housework: Simone de Beauvoir and Inequitable Divisions of Domestic Work in Marriage. Hypatia. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01304.x