What did French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argue in her path-breaking text, The Second Sex?
a. Women should renounce contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes.
b. Women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings.
c. World War II had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males.
d. A "sexual revolution" was impossible.
e. There was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.
b
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