Beauvoir’s philosophical standing collapsed dramatically between 1949 and 1986.

Evidence

Beauvoir spoke from bitter personal experience. Few women have suff ered more than Beauvoir from the consequences of this shift in the tactics of sexism. Before the publication of Th e Second Sex in 1949, Beauvoir was recognized, celebrated, and read as an innovative philosopher on both sides of the Atlantic. But by the time of her death in 1986, Beauvoir was widely and aggressively characterized as a woman whose consciousness had never been violated by an original idea. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs directly with ‘Grafting & Growth’-style reversals and with the reader’s core Beauvoir–Sartre authorship question. — connects to: Beauvoir’s moral-period essays were a verbal exorcism of a collapsing world — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 474

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir’s moral-period essays were a verbal exorcism of a collapsing world #exemplifies (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 474