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Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) influenced The Feminine Mystique
Added by Media Influence Map · 7 October 2026
The influence
Le Deuxième Sexe The Second Sex
Nonfiction · 1949
The work it shaped
The Feminine Mystique
Nonfiction · 1963
The evidence
The Second Sex's attack on psychoanalysis helped to inspire later feminist arguments against it, including Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
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