"While “The Second Sex” focuses on women’s experience of oppression, the larger existentialist ideas I discuss apply to everyone. We all, men and women alike, are shaped by societal norms and expectations, often without fully realizing it."

Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher who thought deeply about freedom and existence. Her book “The Second Sex” is a foundational book for the Feminist movement. She was not content to merely think about human freedom, but insisted that it cannot be seen in isolation. Freedom is interdependent on social and political realities. Her contributions to philosophy and the emancipation movements of the 20th century and the present day, are immense.

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