Postmodern feminism is a movement anteceded by the publication in 1949 post war France of Simone de Beauvoir's La Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex). Asserting that "woman is made not born," de Beauvoir investigated how woman has historically functioned as the culturally constructed and conditioned Other of man. The question she posed in La Deuxieme Sexe is why woman remains, in the dominant cultural discourse, immanent while man realizes transcendence.