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Article: Works of Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex: Book Two, Parts XX - XXV
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Beauvior, Simone de
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Second Sex: Book Two, Parts XX - XXV
Chapter XX: From Maturity to Old Age
The argument. Like menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth, menopause is
a crisis: suddenly woman is deprived of her femininity while half of her adult
life is still ahead of her. Some women try to fight aging by pretending they
are still young. But the crisis continues until woman accepts her growing old.
Then, free of all her responsibilities, she can finally be a whole person.
Commentary
As de Beauvoir has no sympathy for the contemporary woman who accepts her
secondary servile role in society, so she has no sympathy for the manner in
which the contemporary woman ...