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The Sisyphean Torture of Housework: Simone de Beauvoir and Inequitable Divisions of Domestic Work in Marriage
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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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“then, the pursuit of transcendence involves a parasitic movement: “One who achieves transcendence by leaving the maintenance of life to others therefore ‘feeds himself’ on the thwarted transcendence of another” (Veltman 2004: 124).”
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“For Beauvoir, then, the pursuit of transcendence involves a parasitic movement: “One who achieves transcendence by leaving the maintenance of life to others therefore ‘feeds himself’ on the thwarted transcendence of another” (Veltman 2004: 124).”
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- 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)
- OpenAlex
- W2141563493
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- 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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