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    Women’s Nature according to Sayers and Beauvoir Feminism is a broad range of ideas, ideologies, and movements toward advocating for sex and gender equality for women. There has been a sense of inequality between men and women dating back to the beginning of time and it is still prevalent in society today. Women are constantly being treated unequally, whether it is unequal pay for women in the workforce, violence such as rape against women, or women constantly being sexualized. Along with the

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    combat the belief that men are superior to women is providing higher education for men and women. Education would lead to opportunities, opportunities lead to gender equality, and gender equality leads to a productive society. In the book ‘The Second Sex’, Simone De Beauvoir discusses the struggles that she has to go through as a woman and her criticism about the divided gender in the society. She talks about the facts, myths, and thoughts on those matters. The world has always belonged to men since

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    Simone de Beauvoir “The Second Sex’: The Fight against Women’s Oppression Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir simply referred to as Simone de Beauvoir was a French intellectual, writer, political activist, existentialist philosopher, social theorist and feminist born in 1908. Often subscribed to the schools of Existentialism, French Feminism and Western Marxism, she did not regard herself as a philosopher even though she is heralded for her significant influence of feminist theory

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    that the Church as a community can fight to protect them. The following text comes from Simone de Beauvoir called “The Second Sex,” which discusses the ideas of the feminist

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    publication of Simon de Bevour‘s The Second Sex (1949) and her bold assertion that one is not born a woman: but rather becomes one‘ (quoted in Freedman, 13-14). This has led feminist critics to a distinction between physiological and social identities of women. The term sex‘ came to be understood to refer to the biological body called women; while, gender‘ came to be widely recognized as social, cultural and historical construction of the said biological body. Thus, sex‘ and gender‘ began to be equated

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    orientation has drawn consideration of the women 's activist studies with the production of Simon de Bevour 's The Second Sex (1949) and her strong affirmation that one is not conceived a lady: but instead gets to be one ' (cited in Freedman, 13-14). This has driven women 's activist commentators to a refinement between physiological and social personalities of ladies. The term sex ' came to be comprehended to allude to the organic body called ladies; while, sexual orientation ' came to be

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    led to careers as a teacher, author, editor, philosopher, and an activist until the time of her death. It was her first philosophical novel The Second Sex that brought attention to the vast inequality between men and women. Although her writings were often scandalous, de Beauvoir rapidly became one of the most influential

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    Simone Beavoir titled her book “The Second Sex” because she felt that women were the second sex in comparison to men. She felt that men were more superior to women. Beavoir expressed that men were described as essential, a subject, whereas women were unessential and an object. In the book, Thinking about Women: The Social Perspective on Sex and Gender, the author Anderson, describes how women have increased in the professional workforce. There are more women now in the workforce than there were in

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    the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking

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    Adoption Thomas Gregorcyk Ottawa University LGBT Adoption New Jersey’s statewide parenting legislation espouses a progressive stance on the matters of same-sex parenting and child care in the processes of adoption and foster parenting. The Garden State allows for same-sex adoption; allows single homosexuals to adopt; and allows second parent same-sex adoption (Lifelong Adoptions, 2013). New Jersey has passed progressive laws and policies that prohibit discrimination charged against LGBT individuals in

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