 Here is the beginning of the way in which women live their bodies as objects for another’s gaze, something which has its origin not in anatomy but in “education and surroundings” (1949 [2010: 304]). Beauvoir’s account of the way in which women live their bodies in such an objectified way, internalizing the gaze and producing their bodies as objects for others, has been one of her most important contributions to a phenomenology of female embodiment, anticipating and influencing the work of later feminists such as Bartky and Young (see below sections 5.1 and 7.1)   .