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In the introduction to The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir notes that a mannever begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex hisbeing a man poses no problem. Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking Thenwhat kind of a problem does being a woman pose? Bauers aim is to show that inanswering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being awoman poses a philosophical problem.This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn or returnto The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoirs magnum opus written a quartercentury before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy constitutesa meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remainsprofoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sexhas had on womens lives then and now can be traced to Beauvoirs discoveryof a new way to philosophize a way grounded in her identity as a woman. Inoffering a new interpretation of The Second Sex Bauer shows how philosophy canbe politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical. «
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