VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

photokacperkasprzyk fordazedandconfusedmag courtesyarch/dez/art Peeps, In response to numerous inquiries today, this week's blog series is inspired by the book entitled The Second Sex written by French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, and released to critical acclaim in 1949.  It is a work in two volumes (the first entitled Facts and Myths , and the second, Lived Experience ) about the treatment of women throughout history, and is regarded as a major treatise on feminist philosophy, and considered by many as the starting point of 2nd-wave feminism.  Having studied this particular book under the guidance of Dr Debra Bergoffen, I've kept my copy, and frequently turn to individual passages when I try to understand the justifications given by some politicians regarding their attempts to limit the autonomy of women, especially in the area of reproductive rights, and wage equality.   In part two of the first volume, "History," Beauvoir states that two factors wh...