Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex)

The Second Sex's attack on psychoanalysis helped to inspire later feminist arguments against it, including Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.

The Second Sex helped to inspire the feminist arguments of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, including its critique of psychoanalysis.

Kate Millett, 1989: she did not realise the extent to which she had been influenced by Beauvoir when she wrote Sexual Politics.