In answer to Beauvoir’s question, “What is a woman?”

a. she would say that women have been defined as the “Other.”
b. postmodernists like Derrida might say that a particular woman is what she is only in the context of her relation to everything else.
c. Ayer would say that we need to analyze the word “woman” and refer to a definition or to our sense experience if a stated answer is to be meaningful.
d. all of the above would be likely responses.


ANS: D

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