{"id":740,"date":"2011-02-16T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T01:07:52","slug":"analects-of-the-core-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/16\/analects-of-the-core-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Beauvoir on gender inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A woman who expends her energy, who has responsibilities, who knows how harsh is the struggle against the world&#8217;s opposition, needs &#8212; like the male &#8212; not only to satisfy her physical desires but also to enjoy the relaxation and diversion provided by agreeable sexual adventures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; French existentialist philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simone_de_Beauvoir\">Simone de Beauvoir<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Second-Sex-Simone-Beauvoir\/dp\/0679724516\"><em>The Second Sex: Woman&#8217;s Life Today<\/em><\/a> (pg. 686), a book being studied this spring in the second-semester Core Social Sciences, <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc204\">CC204: Inequality<\/a>. Prof. Maureen Sullivan will deliver a lecture addressing empirical evidences for gender inequality in the United States, tomorrow, Thursday February 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who expends her energy, who has responsibilities, who knows how harsh is the struggle against the world&#8217;s opposition, needs &#8212; like the male &#8212; not only to satisfy her physical desires but also to enjoy the relaxation and diversion provided by agreeable sexual adventures. &#8212; French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,4716,1906,3923,4895],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}