When1: 1944
When2: 1970
Who: Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]
What: philosopher/novelist
Where: France
works\ Pyrrhus et Cinéas [1944: play]; Ethics of Ambiguity [1947: essay]; Second Sex [1949: essay]; Mandarins [1954: novel]; Old Age [1970: essay]
Detail: She lived 1908 to 1986 and was Existentialist. She compared female to "Other" or perceived, rather than male perceiver. She examined girl, woman, prostitute, and wife roles.
Ethics
Girls become women and so bear responsibility for choosing security over action. However, situations constrain what people can do. People can change or control lives and surroundings, or not. Significant constraints are effects on others.
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