beauvoir

BEAUVOIR

i've already expressed my doubts about de beauvoir further up, but her book 'the second sex' was the first encyclopedic examination of what it means to be a woman in a post-enlightenment western society. her main argument - that men are allowed to be who they are, but women are expected to conform to society's expectation of them - was radical and shocking when it first appeared (just after WWII).

i've already expressed my doubts about de beauvoir further up, but her book 'the second sex' was the first encyclopedic examination of what it means to be a woman in a post-enlightenment western society. her main argument - that men are allowed to be who they are, but women are expected to conform to society's expectation of them - was radical and shocking when it first appeared (just after WWII).
i've already expressed my doubts about de beauvoir further up, but her book 'the second sex' was the first encyclopedic examination of what it means to be a woman in a post-enlight...