The Second Sex

Name: The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir

by Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophical treatise arguing women are constructed as inferior in patriarchal societies

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Simone de Beauvoir

French existentialist philosopher and feminist whose The Second Sex is the founding text of modern feminism. She analyzed how women are constructed as the Other in a world defined by men, and argued for women's freedom and authentic selfhood. Her lifelong partnership with Sartre was itself a philosophical experiment in freedom.

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