Difference between revisions of "Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir"
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Revision as of 13:50, 6 February 2023
Author of The Second Sex.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3811096?seq=1
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilisation as a whole that determines this creature." [1]
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine." [2]