El legado de Simone de Beauvoir en la genealogía feminista: la fuerza de los proyectos frente a “La fuerza de las cosas”

Abstract

This article explores Simon de Beauvoir's place in feminist genealogy. It presents the philosopher who inherited Enlightenment feminism and went on to challenge the great hegemonic traditions of her time, Marxism and Psychoanalysis in order to reveal human androcentrism. Her book The Second Sex became the key that opened a feminist perspective on the whole human experience. She unlocked the private sphere as a new arena of research and politicisation. Moreover, she criticised patriarchal culture from an astounding interdisciplinary approach. Finally, this article analyses her militancy in the feminist movement.