Feminism in Dialogue
The Influence of Simone de Beauvoir on the Construction of Betty Friedan's Liberal Feminism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14393/CEF-v38n1-2025-22Keywords:
gender studies, existentialist feminism, liberal feminism, Betty Friedan, Simone de BeauvoirAbstract
This article intends to present a comparative perspective between the works that became feminist references in the 1950s-60s: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, and to demonstrate how Beauvoirian methodology contributed to the development of a new strand: American liberal feminism.
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