SOURCE: "Female Eroticism in the Works of Simone de Beauvoir," in The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 18-34.
In the following essay, Pilardi explores Beauvoir's philosophical investigations into female eroticism and passivity in The Second Sex. According to Pilardi, "in The Second Sex and elsewhere, a woman is described by Beauvoir as so totally merged with her erotic experience that her own body seldom appears to her as anything but a fevered 'receiving machine.'"
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