British Academy Lecture: One is not born, but becomes, a genius: Another Simone de Beauvoir

Dr Kate Kirkpatrick, University of Oxford
Chaired by Dr Stacy Gillis
Simone de Beauvoir has often been called the ‘mother’ of second-wave feminism, with The Second Sex its bible. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ is widely cited as a slogan for the view that gender is socially constructed. But the book itself never uses the word ‘gender’ - and its central question is not ‘What is a woman?’; rather, The Second Sex is an existential experiment with a liberatory aim, asking: ‘How, in the feminine condition, can a human being accomplish herself?’
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