Known typically for her association with Jean
Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir exerted an enduring influence upon modern day
feminism. "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" is the
primal theme in The Second
Sex. Some may not deem her a major philosopher, but to humanists,
socialists and Marxists, she is an original thinker. Philippe Knab deduces that
in the Second Sex, “firstly, she put forward a series of empirical claims about
women as the Other, that is, about what the role gender played
in her society. Secondly, she
puts forward a philosophical argument for why sexism is wrong. Clearly, the validity of the
empirical part of the argument depends on one's historical cultural
background.
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