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Reading Assignment: de Beauvoir, and Jay (“Who Invented White People?”)

1. Does de Beauvoir think that there is presently a difference between men and women? Does she think that there will always be one?

2. In her view, what is assymetrical about the status of men and women in our societies?

3. According to Jay, what is whiteness? How did this concept come into existence? Why does he think that it is important for us to analyze and discuss whiteness even though he describes it as an invention and a delusion?