Essays on Simone De Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir is portraying the state of being a woman as not something one is born into but rather what someone transforms into. There are various ways in which this can be interpreted and this quote is even used today in many discussions regarding gender and politics. This quote can be taken literally with...

Simone de Beauvoir’s theory of women being the ‘second sex’ explores the idea that femininity is socially constructed. Judith Butler’s theory on ‘Performance theory of gender’ could be considered as a critique of De Beauvoir’s theory on women being ‘the second sex’. ‘Intersectionality’ refers to the “interaction between gender, race, and other factors in individual...

“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.” – quoted from Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenal book, the second sex. She was a philosopher of the existentialist tradition. In the second sex, she points out that “woman” is known as “other”. “Man” has historically defined what it means to be human, and “woman” is not “man”....