Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86)

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Second Sex (1949)

women need to cease to be the ‘other’ in society

‘one is not born a woman but rather becomes’

sex is distinctive from gender

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Men’s confirmation of their dominance

Society reinforces the superiority men believe they have over women

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Conflict a gender struggle would cause between men and women

Men and women pitted against each other but would eventually come back together

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Gender and sex

the physical differences between men and women do not indicate deeper distinctions between the sexes

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economic independence

society needed to accept predisposed characteristics of women were not true and women were entitled to economic independence