Abstract
In this chapter I shall look at the responses to The Second Sex which are contained in the following works: A. Whitmarsh, Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment (1981); J. B. Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman (1981); C. McMillan, Women, Reason and Nature (1982); T. Keefe, Simone de Beauvoir: A Study of her Writings (1983); G. Lloyd, The Man of Reason (1984); and, finally, M. Evans, Simone de Beauvoir, A Feminist Mandarin (1985). While several of these contributions belong to the heavyweight philosophical division, I shall give special attention to McMillan’s critique, which is both highly sophisticated and extremely conservative,1 a not unexpected combination, perhaps, from an author who is heavily influenced by the neo-Wittgensteinian school of philosophy.2 KeywordsFemale BodyReproductive ControlRadical FeminismLiberal FeminismUnexpected CombinationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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