Is Womanhood a Social Construct?

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The writer of this in-depth paper explores how from the beginning of time male-oriented philosophy and theology proved women to be in the wrong. This paper ponders author Simone de Beauvior's view of women in the book "The Second Sex." This paper also focuses on the African-American woman whose role has been made twice as difficult because of her racial identity as well as other female ethnic groups. This paper delves into Carl Jung's theories of women as well as Aristotle who subjugated women philosophically, politically, economically and as a gender.

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"For the African American Woman the role of woman was made twice as difficult because of her racial identity. Before the Civil War, black women were not only subjugated because they were women, but also because they were chattel (life-long) slaves. To their white male owners they were both mammy and a source of sexual release not permitted with their frail white wives. Once the African slaves were emancipated, the black male was given suffrage but his female counterpart was still subject to him and other men."

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