Description: How does Beauvoir, in the introduction, begin to establish her thesis that to be situated as a woman is to be situated as an Other? Notice the passage in which she asserts that though The categories masculine and feminine appear as symmetrical in a formal way on town hall records or identification papers,” “the relation of the two sexes is not that of two electrical poles.” What relationship between, on the one hand, the social distinction between man and woman, and, on the other hand, the distinction between universality and particularity is she trying to highlight?
