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The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
- Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. Parshley
- 1949
6 mai 2016 · Simone de Beauvoir‘s The Second Sex (1949) can be said to have inaugurated the second wave of feminism, with its central argument that throughout history, across cultures, woman has always occupied a secondary position in relation to man, being relegated to the position of the “other”, that which is adjectival to the ...
16 août 2024 · She is known primarily for her treatise Le Deuxième Sexe, 2 vol. (1949; The Second Sex), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the “eternal feminine.” It became a classic of feminist literature.
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- Simone de Beauvoir attended the Institut Adeline-Désir, a Roman Catholic school for girls, among other private institutions. She began studying phi...
- Simone de Beauvoir taught at various lycées for most of the period of 1931–43. She thereafter earned her living through writing.
- Simone de Beauvoir wrote works of philosophy, novels, memoirs, essays, short stories, and journal articles. Her best-known work is The Second Sex (...
- Simone de Beauvoir was a significant philosopher of existentialism and a pioneering figure of contemporary philosophical feminism. Her The Second S...
- The Second Sex
- Earlier Works
- Fiction
Simone de Beauvoir is best known for her feminism and the exposition of that feminism in her book The Second Sex. This, then, is the best place to begin an introduction to her work. The basic argument of The Second Sexis that woman has historically been oppressed by man. More specifically, woman has been relegated to the status of object, or “Other...
In her earlier works, Beauvoir tries to articulate a kind of “existentialist ethics,” very close to the one advocated by Sartre. These works preview several themes of The Second Sex. For Beauvoir, existentialism is not necessarily radically isolating. One need not be crushed by the absence of God or any external standards by which to guide our live...
Beauvoir wrote much fiction throughout her life. Her first novel, L’Invitée (She Came to Stay), published in 1943, is a “philosophic” account of a relationship between a man and two women. The main character, Françoise, comes to realize that her relationship with Pierre cannot be taken for granted, but must constantly be chosen and won. We see here...
Simone de Beauvoir's view of gender as an incessant project, a daily act of recon- stitution and interpretation, draws upon Sartre's doctrine of prereflec- tive choice and gives that difficult epistemological structure a concrete cultural meaning.
17 août 2004 · The Second Sex expressed their sense of injustice, focused their demands for social, political, and personal change and alerted them to the connections between private practices and public policies. No longer considered sexually scandalous, its analysis of patriarchy and women’s oppression, and its proposed antidotes to women’s ...
The Second Sex critically explores what it was like in past and present times to live as a woman in a patriarchal world. In her book, Simone de Beauvoir challenges the long-held notion that gender differences are based on biological differences and that women therefore are inherently inferior beings to men. She argues that women’s inferior ...
