The second sex

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman

Simone de Beauvoir paved the way for feminist scholars and activists today. No biological, psychological, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female acquires in society because the relationship between men and women in socially constructed. In her 1071-page critique of patriarchy, Beauvoir challenges the social, political and religious arguments used to justify women’s second-class status of the time.

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