You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who are at one point

said on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 232 is something like, what is the existential situation of women?

And we read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex from 1949, specifically the intro, conclusion,

woman situation and character, and selections from lived experience.

For information, visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Mayer, really trying not to ever disrespect my wife in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, feeling his virility in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Jenny Hansen, striving to find an authentic existence as a female from New York.

So Jenny has appeared before on an after show of the last time we attacked Simone de Beauvoir

but this is your first time on The Main Stage.

So welcome.

I'm so excited.

Yay.

Have you taught this book?

What was your experience with this?

Yes, I have taught this book often on maybe like 15 years.

It's been a while and so I had to go back and read it but I've taught it both in intro

to philosophy classes, feminist theory and phenomenology, existentialist courses.

It was like the book that got me into philosophy.

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