Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." De Beauvoir's philosophical masterwork dissects how society constructs femininity and lays the intellectual f…

• 1949 CE

  Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex

  "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." De Beauvoir's philosophical masterwork dissects how society constructs femininity and lays the intellectual foundation for second-wave feminism worldwide.