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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 · This idea resounds in de Beauvoir’s famous statement: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” Influenced by Sartrean existentialism, Marxism, Psychoanaysis and Hegel, she argued that the objectification of woman permeates human history and informs the whole of Western philosophical thought.
17. Aug. 2004 · The Second Sex is a deliberate feminist phenomenological investigation of the sexed/gendered body, and it is considered a founding text in the field of feminist phenomenology. Beauvoir draws explicitly on narrative accounts of women’s lived experience and focuses on the entanglement of the general and the particular, rather than ...
Revolutionary and incendiary, The Second Sex is one of the earliest attempts to confront human history from a feminist perspective. It won de Beauvoir many admirers and just as many detractors.
- Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. Parshley
- 1949
The basic argument of The Second Sex is that woman has historically been oppressed by man. More specifically, woman has been relegated to the status of object, or “Other,” and so lacks independence. Man, by contrast, is a “Self.”
10. Apr. 2024 · She is known for her treatise The Second Sex (1949), an argument for the abolition of what she called the myth of the ‘eternal feminine.’ It became a classic of feminist literature. She also won the Prix Goncourt for her novel The Mandarins (1954).
27. Mai 2010 · The Second Sex was an act of Promethean audacity — a theft of Olympian fire — from which there was no turning back. It is not the last word on “the problem of woman,” which, Beauvoir wrote,...
