edward milazzo

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In 1949, Simone. De. When Beauvoir's The Second Sex was published in France, it provoked two extreme reactions in society. "A woman is not born a woman; she becomes a woman later." Beauvoir made this famous point in her book, and the further interpretation of this line -- that women's fate as wives and mothers is imposed on them by men to limit their freedom -- shocked many, including the Pope. The Vatican banned it and feminists revered it. The book sold 20,000 copies in its first week in France, far exceeding expectations for a philosophical work, and has since sold more than three million copies in French and millions more in English, Russian, Japanese and German.