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Essay · 1949

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

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The Second Sex
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Restates modernity in a sharper essay register.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.

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Open anchor Man's Search for Meaning Keeps modernity in play with a different essay voice.

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.

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