Existentialist subject-Other opposition provided the framework for feminist analysis

Evidence

Yet Sartre’s work, and specifically the existentialist notion of an opposition between a sovereign self—a subject—and an objectified Other, gave Beauvoir the conceptual scaffold for The Second Sex, while her life as a woman (indeed, as Sartre’s woman) impelled her to write it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 13

Categorization

• XREF: Situates Beauvoir’s debt to Sartre’s subject-Other opposition and its foundational role in Continental thought. — connects to: The Second Sex transformed women’s lives as an unrecognized existentialist work — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 68; Beauvoir’s The Second Sex applied existentialist method to the history of patriarchy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 666; Beauvoir grounded existential freedom within gendered historical situations — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 684 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Names the core conceptual scaffold — subject vs. objectified Other — that will structure the whole book.

Broader Connections

• Existentialist categories migrated into postwar social science via Riesman, Goffman, and Arendt #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 895
• Existentialism is by nature applied to real individual lives #qualifies (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 687