RADICAL FEMINISM IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S THE SECOND SEX TREATISE: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL

Abstract

Radical feminism represents one of the types of the feminist theories founded on the attitude that the society is based on the patriarchal grounds, because of which women are marginalized and discriminated against. Feminism is a contemporary social and political movement, motivated by individual and collective experiences of women, which is based on the claim that a society is based on patriarchal principles, according to which men are privileged over women, which results in discrimination against women in public and private life. Although feminism is often considered a unique ideology, this theory actually makes a large number of routes created under the influence of various factors that may be related to the historical and cultural specificity. These are simply what Simone de Beauvoir represents in The Second Sex, which is the key and rationale for this paper in order to see how philosophically correct her stance is, through the use the tool of philosophical analysis.