French backlash against The Second Sex hindered its acceptance as philosophy

Evidence

In the French world, one could probably argue that the treatise has been less than well received. When published, it generated a wave of protests and was judged to be scandalous. Beauvoir was publicly insulted and accused of having unduly attacked the French male! Th is was probably not conducive to a friendly reception of her work as philosophical. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 56

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic literature already in the library — complaints about immodesty and scandal reception shaping how texts are read. — connects to: The Second Sex transformed women’s lives as an unrecognized existentialist work — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 68; Howard Parshley’s flawed translation obscured The Second Sex’s philosophical status — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 56; The Second Sex is fundamentally ethical and political, not epistemological — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 62 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Howard Parshley’s flawed translation obscured The Second Sex’s philosophical status #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 56
• The 1943-49 period saw Beauvoir publish Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 53
• The Second Sex is fundamentally ethical and political, not epistemological #qualifies (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 62
• Beauvoir’s The Second Sex applied existentialist method to the history of patriarchy #expands (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 666