ABSTRACT
Simone de Beauvoir the author of The Second Sex (TSS), is regarded as the first thinker in France explicitly to politicise sexuality, seeking to assail and destroy patriarchal myths of femininity in TSS, which greatly influenced the sexual revolution in the 1960s. He discusses about female body and female sexuality. He explores development and changes of the female body from childhood to old age which often result in confusion, shame, depression or pride in women in different ages because women imagine themselves in response to being imagined. This chapter focuses on How the Chinese translators deal with the material of the female body and female sexuality is of significance in respect of transmitting feminism. Female sexuality is an important part in the formation of woman and in the experience of woman's life, because eroticism is movement toward the other. Beauvoir discusses the development of female eroticism and various sexual experiences that accompany women's lives.
