Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1949

The Second Sex (1949)

1949 — In Paris, Simone de Beauvoir publishes Le Deuxième Sexe. She argues that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The Vatican puts the book on its Index of forbidden books, and an abridged English translation reaches American readers in 1953.

When: 1949
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Origins of second-wave feminism (chapter 1 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
Atlas: Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015

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