Simone de Beauvoir--The Other

Simone de Beauvoir has long been viewed as a feminist with a cold shoulder. Her works have always been overshadowed by those of another great existentialist by the name of Jean Paul Sartre. However, in recent years de Beauvoir has been re-examined for her intinsic value in the feminist world. In The Second Sex, de Beauvoir's most famous work, de Beauvoir illustrates the existentialists' and the feminists' viewpoints in one neat piece of writing. She not only pierces the veil of the traditional feminine myth by showing the futility of most housewife's lives, she also argues that the Platonic view of the "ideal world" is inaccurate and that everyone, including women, begin this world with a clean slate that is w...