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I've attached the reading as a file and below is the link to the video.

https://youtu.be/SRhuCpO-GC4

After reading the De Beauvoir piece and watching the accompanying video, create a set of notes outlining her main ideas.

The notes can be informal and in any format you like, but they must do the following:
- Outline the reading's overall claim and major points;
- Define how she present the following concepts:
  - conceptualism
  - nominalism
  - the one v. the other
  - subject v. object
In your notes, make sure you make reference to specific quotes/sections of the readings and include the page numbers where they can be found.
You will be graded on the completeness and clarity of your notes.

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Azra S · Accepted Answer

Notes on De Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”
De Beauvoir begins discussion in “The Second Sex” by discussing background on Conceptualism and Nominalism
Conceptualism as discussed by De Beauvoir is the essential nature of things. Everything is the way it is because of something innate in it.
“… to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity (Beauvoir, 1949, p.1)”
The concept of conceptualism is no longer accepted today.
“But conceptualism has lost ground (Beauvoir, 1949, p.2)”
Nominalism refers to the fact that the names of things aren’t really descriptors of them . So everything is equal, and is just named so because it was historically or accidently called so. Like men and women are equal and the same and are just called so by names. There is no difference between them.
“… women, to them, are merely the human beings arbitrarily designated by the word woman (Beauvoir, 1949, p. 2)”
Beauvoir disagrees with nominalism. She believes in order to give women their due, we need to acknowledge the differences between men and women. Only then can we truly appreciate their true worth.
“The fact is that every concrete human being is always a singular, separate individual (Beauvoir, 1949, p.

I've attached the reading as a file and below is the link to the video. https://youtu.be/SRhuCpO-GC4 After reading the De Beauvoir piece and watching the accompanying video, create a set of notes...

I've attached the reading as a file and below is the link to the video.

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