ABSTRACT
In her study The Second Sex, published in French in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir brings to light the second-class status of women in history. According to her, women were always ruled by men and exclusively defined in their relation to them. She concludes, however, that things for women will turn out for the better thanks to their access to contraception, work, and education. ‘The free woman is just being born,’ she announces, thus picturing women as subjects on the move (Beauvoir 2010: 767).
