A review by tafolabi12
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

i can see how upon reading this for the first time many women become radicalized. Simone De Beauvoir does an exquisite job describing the female, femme, feminine experience as it pertains to women’s servitude. She repeatedly returns to describing woman as “the other”. When women are the other man is therefore the essential being . Woman therefore comes out of male. biological data and statistics are used to denote women’s inferiority . If her inherent nature begots her to inferiority , other facets of her livelihood therefore do the same . What we see as Beauvoir journeys the lives of woman ness is that every stage in life is met with new attempts at full humanity. However, she can never achieve that status because at every stage she is still met the void of nothingness, Depression. Emptinness. Boredom. At every stage of woman’s life, whether it be girlhood childhood married status motherhood old age, women is met with these vapid emotions . Being therefore ceases to exist for the female sex