Genre
Non-fiction
Setting and Context
France, 1949
Narrator and Point of View
Third person
Tone and Mood
Critical/Philosophical/Ironic
The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir begins her introduction by explaining that she chose to write a book about women because there is still a controversy over what it means to be a woman in the first place. Is “femininity” biological, or defined by behaviors, or...
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The Second Sex is a feminist text.
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