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===Sexuality, existentialist feminism and ''The Second Sex''===
''[[The Second Sex]]'', first published in French as Le Deuxième sexe, turns the existentialist mantra that ''[[existence precedes essence]]'' into a feminist one: “One is not born but becomes a woman.”<ref> Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 267</ref> With this famous phrase, Beauvoir first articulated what has come to be known as the sex-gender distinction, that is, the distinction between biological sex
De Beauvoir defines women as the “Second sex” because women are defined in relation to men. Aristotle referred that women are “female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities.” De Beauvoir also points out that St. Thomas referred to the woman as the “imperfect man", the "incidental” being.<ref name="marxists.org">[https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/introduction.htm]</ref>
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