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  • Essay / Comparison of We were not born a woman by Wittig and The...

    The construction of gender is based on the division of humanity between man and woman. It is impossible ontologically speaking; because humans are not divided, gender is therefore only an imaginary domain. This only exists in language exercises and in the way cultural products are designed there. This essay is a preliminary attempt to offer an analysis of “We are not born a woman” by Wittig and “The second sex” by Simone De Beauvoir on the contribution of the use of language to the creation of gender and femininity imagined. imaginations of genders, the character of society can be represented and captured in this imagery. This virtual representation, the study of an enduring and misleading public attitude in prevalent images of a gender and ways of representing gender, has proven a productive and illuminating area of ​​research. The stylistic dynamics at work in the genesis and propagation of gender images in linguistic discourses, as well as their explicit function and the manner in which they are received, constitute a crucial source in forming a basis for female status in any society . Simone De Beauvoir (2011) addresses the ambiguity of imagined femininity by saying that “to be considered [as a woman], she must share this mysterious and threatened reality that is femininity.” Such a “mysterious and threatened reality” is indeed independent of the facts as this article will reveal, and they do not reflect feminine reality nor provide a truthful reflection of women, but are purely part of the cultural imagination. Monique Wittig, a radical feminist, explains “Because what makes a woman is a specific social relationship with men, a relationship that we call servitude”. The concept of justifying the inferior image of women is based on biology and 'middle of paper'........a power enterprise and a source of pride in society. Emphasizing sexism in language and increasing care with words can be a vital feminist strategy for bringing about social change (Weatherall, 2002). Language can produce a false imagination and represent women and men unequally, as if members of one sex are somehow less fully human, less complex, and have fewer rights than members of the other sex. Sexist language characterizes both women's and men's serotypes equally, sometimes to the detriment of both, but more often to the detriment of women. (Wareing and Thomas, 2012). Accordingly, it is necessary that individuals have the right to define, and redefine over the course of their lives, their own gender identity, regardless of genitalia, sex assigned to them at birth or gender role. initial gender. Language about women is not an unaligned or trivial issue but a deeply political issue.