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Simone De Beauvoir Research Paper

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Soviet women did not have jobs and government positions but were still unfailingly the ones attending to the housework and children at the end of the workday. This was something that Beauvoir recognized and then mirrored the problems that were being talked about by feminists in the United States, about housewives and women's "roles." She inspired a second wave of feminism. I find that a little funny since she did not start out as a feminist, (separate topic) Her contributions help by capturing the true extent in which women have been oppressed throughout history as a result of being categorized as the Other. Endeavoring to explain how this categorization has occurred, Simone de Beauvoir elucidates an evident duality in society: man represents

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