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GUERRA PALMERO, María José. La mujer-filósofo o la más “antinatural” de las criaturas. En torno a Simone de Beauvoir y a su obra El segundo sexo. Valenciana [online]. 2011, vol.4, n.7, pp.131-146. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i7.229.

This article analyzes the pioneering nature of The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir’s founding text which definitely contributed to contemporary feminist philosophy and provided the first theoretical framework for the Second Wave Feminism. Beauvoir elaborates on “alterity” as the category to refer to women’s existence. In this light, this paper first probes into the manifold usages of such category as de Beauvoir explains and renders visible the life conditions of women, who are condemned to live dispossessed and to remain immanent. It is this issue that triggers off within Second Wave feminism the constructivist theorizing of “gender”. Secondly, I explore the critical reception of de Beauvoir’s work, unacknowledged and prey to sexist discredit and biases for a long time, which eventually retarded its fair assessment three decades afterwards. Finally, the paper attests to the dis/agreement between two generations of French feminists who Simone de Beauvoir herself and Luce Irigaray and Michelle Le Doeuff represent.

Palabras llave : Simone de Beauvoir; feminism; existencialism; critical reception; gender.

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