The 1943-49 period saw Beauvoir publish Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex

Evidence

2. Th e times of World War II and the immediate postwar period: Sartre’s Being and Nothingness appeared in 1943, soon followed by Beauvoir’s essay Pyrrhus et Cinéas. At the end of the war, both launch, with Merleau- Ponty, Les Temps modernes. Th ey both contribute many articles and essays to the journal. Sartre works on his plays and on his Notebooks for an Ethics. Beauvoir publishes Th e Ethics of Ambiguity and, in 1949, her magnum opus, Th e Second Sex. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 53

Categorization

• XREF: The Second Sex (1949) is commonly read as repaying Beauvoir’s existentialist debt to Sartre, while Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) is seen as mapping her own ethics onto his ontology. — connects to: Beauvoir’s The Second Sex applied existentialist method to the history of patriarchy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 666; French backlash against The Second Sex hindered its acceptance as philosophy — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 56

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir’s The Second Sex applied existentialist method to the history of patriarchy #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 666