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In the Body of a Woman: Essays on Law, Gender and Society
Author: Aaliya Waziri
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 232
Price: Rs. 499
In the introduction to her 1949 book, The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir grapples with the many definitions of womanhood: “But first, what is a woman? ‘Tota mulier in utero: She is a womb’ some say.” She then deliberates over whether having a womb is the only prerequisite for being a woman; she considers the term “femininity” as part of the experience of womanhood. “Is femininity secreted by the ovaries? Is it enshrined in a Platonic heaven?” she philosophises.
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