In the Following Excerpt from the Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence

question 27

Multiple Choice

In the following excerpt from The Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence 29.2) , Simone de Beauvoir offers her views on marriage: "Marriage must combine two autonomous existences, not be a withdrawal, an annexation, an escape, a remedy. . . . The couple should not consider itself a community, a closed cell: instead, the individual as individual has to be integrated into a society in which he can thrive without assistance; he will then be able to create links in pure generosity with another individual equally adapted to the group, links founded on the recognition of two freedoms."
In Beauvoir's view,

• A)marriage should be abolished.
• B)men and women have very different roles in marriage.
• C)both partners in a marriage must maintain their autonomy.
• D)marriage is the union of souls.

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