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The 16 pages that link to The Second Sex, each with the reason it gives.

• ExistentialismBroader topic: It applies existentialist freedom to the concrete conditions that shape women’s lives.

• Feminist literary criticismBroader topic: Its account of woman as other became a foundation for feminist analysis of representation.

• Gender roleBroader topic: Its account of becoming a woman shaped debate over socially produced gender expectations.

• Simone de BeauvoirBroader topic: This major work applies existentialist analysis to women’s oppression and social formation.

• Feminist theoryBroader topic: Its account of becoming a woman became a foundational resource for feminist theories of gender.

• AmbiguityBroader topic: It applies existential analysis to how women are made into social others.

• Feminist literatureBroader topic: It offers a foundational analysis of the cultural forces feminist literature contests.

• ObjectificationBroader topic: It develops a major existentialist account of how women are made objects in relation to men.

• Gender normsBroader topic: It offers a foundational critique of the expectations that define women in relation to men.

• Social construction of genderBroader topic: Its famous formulation that one becomes a woman captures the concept's central claim.