Beauvoir corrected Sartre by grounding relationships in status and role differences

Evidence

For a start, she pointed out that the idea of love, or any other relationship, as a reciprocal encounter between two equal participants had missed one crucial fact: real human relationships contained differences of status and role. Sartre had neglected the different existential situations of men and women; in The Second Sex, she used Hegel’s concept of alienation to correct this. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 680

Categorization

• XREF: Gives historical texture to the ‘woman as Other’ idea familiar from The Second Sex; ties to the reader’s interest in how existentialism and Hegel interrelate.