Beauvoir's The Second Sex
1949 · Work
Founding text of modern feminism; 'one is not born, but becomes, a woman'.
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Around 1949
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)