ABSTRACT
Feminism re-emerged in the turmoil of the 1960s in anger and resistance, committed to revolution, to change. Heralding this wave and following nineteenth-century themes, Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1947: 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.' There is a difference between being anatomically female and becoming what society recognizes as a woman: while there are facts, they take on meanings only within a social context. What we are as women we become, formed by oppression, being defined in relation to men as Other, different.
