Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Freedom and women: Simone de Beauvoir
    • 1.1 Who was Simone de Beauvoir?
    • 1.2 The Second Sex, the 1960s and the feminist revolution
    • 1.3 What does it mean to be a woman?
  • 2 Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
    • 2.1 Women as the ‘Other’
    • 2.2 The Second Sex and existentialism
    • 2.3 Comparison with ethnic minorities
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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