Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
The Second Sex (1949)
1949 — Simone de Beauvoir publishes Le Deuxième Sexe in Paris, arguing that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The Vatican places it on its Index of forbidden books; an abridged English translation reaches American readers in 1953.
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- Origins of second-wave feminism (chapter 1 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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- Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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