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A Macat Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Written by Rachele Dini
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The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949, as French writer and existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir set out her groundbreaking ideas on what it meant to be a woman.
De Beauvoir’s book charted the oppression of “the second sex” in terms never before seen in the academic world. Her most startling theory became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men.
A leading light in the existentialist movement, de Beauvoir applied the radical philosophy of personal choice and freedom to argue that women were subjugated in every area of life. She claimed that powerful cultural myths, the rules of society, and ideas about acceptable sexual behavior combined to rob women of both their individuality and their voice.
Decades on, de Beauvoir’s work is still the subject of intense debate—provoking anger and admiration in equal measure. It is impossible to consider the women’s rights movement since World War II without talking about this landmark text.
De Beauvoir’s book charted the oppression of “the second sex” in terms never before seen in the academic world. Her most startling theory became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men.
A leading light in the existentialist movement, de Beauvoir applied the radical philosophy of personal choice and freedom to argue that women were subjugated in every area of life. She claimed that powerful cultural myths, the rules of society, and ideas about acceptable sexual behavior combined to rob women of both their individuality and their voice.
Decades on, de Beauvoir’s work is still the subject of intense debate—provoking anger and admiration in equal measure. It is impossible to consider the women’s rights movement since World War II without talking about this landmark text.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well presented, clear, concise. Thanks to Scribd, the author & reader for enabling this cisgender male member of the patriarchy to understand the original insights of Simone de Beauvoir. I also picked up, in passing, the atheistic existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir and her long time husband Jean Paul Sartre. How disillusioned those French intellectuals must have become after living through the German occupation of their homeland during World War 2. The paradox is that, scientifically, men and women are created with biological differences for the continuation of the human species. These differences govern behavior and choice to some degree. These days, 70 years later, feminism has been split asunder by the transgender movement. We see that, as a result, in some Western countries the legislators refuse to write into law a definition of the word “woman”. And that word has been removed from marriage law in many Western countries. Putin says in his 24 February 2022 address to the Russian people about Ukraine, that these are “false values” the West is trying to inflict. He said they will never be successful in Russia to cause “degradation and degeneration” of the traditional Russian values.