# The Second Sex and Becoming

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The Second Sex analyzes how woman is historically positioned as the Other relative to a masculine norm. Beauvoir distinguishes biological facts from the social meanings, practices, myths, and institutions through which femininity becomes a lived situation rather than a fixed destiny.

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