… with the consequence that 'being' female and 'being' a woman are two very different sorts of
being. … of Simone de Beauvoir's formulation, "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." …

… had greeted Beauvoir’s treatment of female sexuality in The Second Sex certainly suggests
that the two women occupied similar ground. Merck also goes on to discuss Beauvoir’s …

… De Beauvoir's attitude should remind us of the great difficulty women confront in accurately
… But it should also warn us of our tendency to idealize women such as Simone de Beauvoir. In …

… the dynamic state of affairs in Beauvoir studies today. To respond to … Beauvoir and the
legend of The Second Sex-part icon, part relic-in North American feminism. In a sense, Beauvoir's …

… Largely unacknowledged by the French, by philosophers and by the women's movement
alike, The Second Sex erupts into the present in a manner that dislocates it from its' proper'…

… It is the only chapter of The Second Sex in which Beauvoir's project of demystification is
opposed… controls The Second Sex, we encounter in "The Woman in Love" Beauvoir's ambivalent …

… If the female function is not enough to define woman, and if we also reject the explanation
of … Log on to the Feminist Theory Profile Page to read more on Simone de Beauvoir and the …

… 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'-Simone de Beauvoir's formulation distinguishes
sex from gender and suggests that gender is an aspect of identity gradually acquired. 1 …

… the occasion of Beauvoir’s writing about women were incidental … Second Sex it’s not going
to be the mere fact that Beauvoir … that Beauvoir in The Second Sex elides the concept “woman…

… Simone de Beauvoir's identification with the world of women in struggles we usually call
political emerged clearly and unexpectedly in my interview with her in June 1982. I asked her …