The Second Sex
Beauvoir's feminist masterwork analyzes women's oppression through existentialist philosophy. Through biology, psychoanalysis, and history, she examines how women become Other. The famous claim 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' grounds gender in social construction. The work explores freedom, bad faith, and transcendence denied to women.
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