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le deuxime sexe seems to fit well in the history of post-68 feminism, having been written during the "70s in the early stages of second-wave feminism. in the first part of le deuxime sexe beauvoir deals primarily with the appearance of feminism as a socio-political movement in the wake of the second world war. she underlines that the struggle for woman's rights had only begun with the emergence of a number of public consciousness groups, such as the pouvoir d'attribution, and the nouvelle i.e.d. after the war (beauvoir 17).
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beauvoir links the emergence of the feminist movement to the politics of the third republic which tried to address women's problems at the same time as granting women the right to vote and to stand for office. we must recognise, writes beauvoir, the extent to which the feminist demand for the right to vote was directly connected to the desire for the first childhood and the emancipation of women (beauvoir 13).
the importance of le deuxime sexe lies not so much in the content as in the form in which it was written. a philosophical treatise containing "the most sophisticated philosophical argumentations", it breaks the rules of the genre, forcing the reader to change the way in which she is used to reading texts. this is also true of the long allegorical titles which shape the book's structure: le traitement des souffrances (the treatment of suffering), la force de l'âge (the force of old age), and finally la force de la vie (the force of life), the fourth and longest section of the book.