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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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