AP European History

Answer - B - Simone de Beauvoir was speaking of women’s rights when she spoke of the “Other.”

Key Takeaway: Simone de Beauvoir was a prominent French feminist writer who wrote The Second Sex. This work describes a kind of feminist existentialism, encouraging her readers to become a Woman. In the chapter “Woman: Myth and Reality,” Beauvoir argues that men made women into society’s “other.” This meant that in putting this fake sense of mystery around women, men had an excuse not to try to understand women or their plight. She argued that this system always existed in patriarchal societies.