Simone de beauvoir against the power of phallocentrism.

• Main Author: Yeo, Cheryl Zhi Zhen.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15407
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Simone de Beauvoir has been considered as one of the first few feminists many others follow, but reading through The Second Sex leaves one to wonder why: the way she writes is incongruent with the ideas she seems to portray and the language she uses betrays this. Beauvoir has tried to answer 't...