A construção cultural do feminino: discussão à luz de Beauvoir e Skinner

Abstract

This work consists of conducting an investigation and drawing a parallel between concepts used by Simone de Beauvoir and B. F. Skinner, in order to analyze how women's freedom is conditioned and how bad faith, an existentialist concept, contributes. It seeks to visualize how the cultural construction of femininity occurs, so that this is possible, during the writing process, in the first chapter, "The Selection by Consequences and the Non-Essentialist Discussion of the Feminine," the dimensions that compose the human being will be addressed; in the second chapter, "The Lived Experience and the Body," some concepts used by Simone de Beauvoir, such as subjectivity, culture, ambiguity, etc., will be further explored to aid in the understanding of the work. From a historical perspective, in the third chapter, “Meeting of Skinner and Beauvoir grappling with patriarchy”, an attempt will be made to discuss and verify if the contingencies that maintain and strengthen patriarchy are the same as those that established it.