Feminism Figures
Simone de Beauvoir
De Beauvoir's The Second Sex became one of the most influential works of modern feminism.
Notable contribution
Analyzed womanhood as historically constructed and made existentialist philosophy central to feminist theory.
Profile notes
- She argued that societies make woman the Other rather than a full subject.
- Her work shaped second-wave feminism, gender theory, and debates about freedom.
- She examined biology, myth, history, labor, sexuality, and lived experience together.