2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Second Sex written by a famous French philosopher, writer, and feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir. For many women, the book had been a genuine revelation, halfway between an overwhelming awareness of the global condition of women and the need for emancipation that this text-manifesto contains implicitly. For the first time, the differences between women and men were analyzed as the product of historicized knowledge, always and already culturally situated and socially determined by the patriarchal order.
The science itself contributes to maintaining the power hierarchies between women and men, by making the former the eternal auxiliaries of the latter. In this inspiring and revolutionary book, nothing escapes bold and shrewd analysis, which lists uncompromisingly the forms of women’s subjugation.