PEREMPUAN MERDEKA DALAM PERSPEKTIF FEMINISME EKSISTENSIALIS SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Abstract

The question of what and who women are, will indeed give birth to various perspectives, even counterproductive. Some of them are socio-historical, biological, psychoanalytic, and economic, and each provides a different explanation of women. However, despite these explanations, women are always inferior compared to men who are always positioned as superior, and this is what spurred Simone de Beauvoir to think about who a woman is through her thoughts, namely existentialist feminism. Departing from a qualitative method with a philosophical hermeneutic approach, the results in this study can be seen that: 1) Simone de Beauvoir's idea of ​​existentialist feminism is heavily influenced by the existentialist philosophy of Jean Paul-Sartre, with the argument that "existence precedes essence", 2) Simone adopts Sartre's "Being" namely "Being" in itself (etre en soi), "Being" for itself (etre pour soi) and "Being" for others (etre pour les autres), 3) "Human is condemned to be free”, not only men have freedom, but also women, 4) Marriage as a matter of limiting women's freedom.