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Then Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Germaine Greer organized the Women's Liberation Movement. They argued that women should re-evaluate their goals, their roles, and their bodies, and fulfill themselves in terms of what gives them the greatest personal satisfaction...
...talking about individuals, about small changes that are big for private lives." She believes that "the liberation of women can and will occur, it's an irreversible process... When I was floundering around in the fifties, not knowing who I was or why, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex came like a flash of recognition. Even then, though, I didn't quite make the connection between what she was writing about and myself. I was just then becoming politically conscious, and it was years before I made the connection between women and politics, myself and the world...
FEMINISM. Not just the 'same rights' as men; 'as in political and economic status'; which was made obvious in 1949 with the publication of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. No, more than anything else the righteous and intrinsic concern of teminism appears to me to be the liberation of one's psychology, and one's self-definition, from the essentially incorrect and oppressive definition of some other...
...COMING OF AGE by Simone de Beauvoir. The 64-year-old author of The Second Sex urges a revolution in values and behavior to provide for the old and improve the society that tries to forget them...
...Populist Mechanics: Demystifying Your Car") offered women some defenses against chauvinistic (or crooked) auto repairmen. An excerpt from Ingrid Bengis' recently published Combat in the Erogenous Zone movingly portrayed one woman's growing rage at men's sexual imperiousness. Author Simone de Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex inaugurated much feminist debate 23 years ago, revealed her waning faith in socialism as a means of gaining rights for women...