- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to Divorce in France
- Introduction to Women Insist
- Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.231) Introduction
- Source:
- Feminist Writings
- Author(s):
Françoise Picq
, Marybeth Timmermann- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir was not a feminist activist. She did not believe that feminism had ever been an autonomous movement. Noting in The Second Sex that equality between the sexes had been recognized in the United Nations and that many women had finally had “all the privileges of the human being restored to them” she concluded that “the quarrel about feminism” is “now almost over.”...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to Divorce in France
- Introduction to Women Insist
- Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
