"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male." What intellectual is known for her feminist treatise, The Second Sex?

Existentialist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir took the lead in philosophical feminism. Her treatise, The Second Sex, rejected the idea of the "eternal feminine" – i.e. the idealization of Woman as having a gender role with innate "essences" unaltered by time or environment.

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