In her path-breaking text The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued that
A) women should renounce all 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) the Second World War had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males.
D) a "sexual revolution" was impossible and discouraged women outside of France from taking up her ideas.
E) there was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.
B
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