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Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir: The second sex (I)
Authors: Leybiz González González
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This research focuses on one of the fi nest works of feminist thought, The second sex. Facts and myths (Vol. I), as well as some of its key assumptions and inputs to the contemporary. The tour begins from conception of otherness, the critique to the biology, psychoanalysis, materialism and the historical evolution of women up to the connection with the present century. Its pages question, reveal, denounce, with exquisite skill, the role assigned to the women in society, and thus, the infl uence of cultural values in the “construction” of the feminine. Their influence enabled a quantum leap in the analysis, insight and perspective in the study and understanding of female ethics and politics, as well as its path to liberation.