Simone de Beauvoir
1908 – 1986 · France · Philosophy, Literature
The Second Sex founded modern feminist philosophy.
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Who shaped Simone de Beauvoir, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980 · Philosophy, Literature
Their lifelong exchange produced both existential ethics and The Second Sex.
Passed the work to2
- Martha Nussbaum
1947 · Philosophy, Human Rights
Nussbaum's feminist philosophy argues from and past Beauvoir's situated freedom.
- Nawal El Saadawi
1931 – 2021 · Literature, Medicine
The Second Sex's construction of woman is applied to Arab medicine and law.
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