@article{2015,title={SIMONE DE BEAUVOİR'S THE SECOND SEX:WOMAN AS OTHER},abstractNode={Simone de Beauvoir is one of the great names in the history of French literature; she was an outstanding philosopher, novelist, playwright and essayist. However, for millions of women all over the world, Beauvoir is above all a feminist icon, the author of The Second Sex, the revolutionary text of feminism. The Second Sex insisted that womanhood as we know it is a social construct. These two quotations that Beauvoir chose as epigraphs to the Introduction explain her purpose: ''There is a good principle, which has created order, light, and man; and a bad principle, which has created chaos, darkness, and woman'' (Pythagoras) and ''All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party to the lawsuit.'' (Poulain de la Barre) Beauvoir's goal was to investigate why ''Woman is seen as different from man, not man as different from woman: She represents the inessential in relation to the essential. He is Subject, the Absolute; she is the Other.'' The purpose of this article is to examine the woman as ''other'' and the nature of Beauvoir's The Second Sex.},author={Emel KOÇ},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}