Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to the Second SexMarch 22, 2006S. de Beauvoir and J.P. SartreThe Second Sex Woman as the second sex The second sex derived from the first sex Women in the position of the “other” What does it mean to be an “other”? I and the other We and the otherThe Second Sex (1949) Beginning of second wave of feminism Main idea of the book Women as the second sex The second sex as derived from the first sex Women have been defined as secondary to men who have been seen as the
