What inspired Simone de Beauvoir to write 'The Second Sex' during that era?
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What inspired Simone de Beauvoir to write 'The Second Sex' during that era?
Did anyone else find the analysis of women's social roles both empowering and unsettling?
How do readers interpret the idea that 'one is not born, but rather becomes' a woman?