Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

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Simone de Beauvoir:The Second Sex
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-167

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Abstract

In 1945, women in France were granted the right to vote. The inclusion of women in the political and social future of France had long been taken up bywomen activists across France, dating back to the founding of First Republic, in which Olympe de Gouges in The Declaration of the Rights of Woman denounced the customary treatment of women as second class and argued that women should be included in France’s future. In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir followed in the footsteps of de Gouges with The Second Sex. The title is a criticism of women being categorized as the secondary or inferior sex.

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