In her pathbreaking text The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued which of the following?

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In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir argued that women had always been defined by their differences from men and treated as second-class beings as a result. She argued that this view of women as the “other” was deeply ingrained in Western thought and culture and needed to be challenged in order to achieve true gender equality. De Beauvoir did not argue for women to renounce all contact with men or that World War II legitimated male power.

In Her Pathbreaking Text the Second Sex, the Influential French