The word ‘gender’ did not carry its modern sense for Beauvoir in 1949

Evidence

We did not modernize the language Beauvoir used and had access to in 1949. This decision precluded the use of the word “gender,” for example, as applied today. We also stayed close to Beauvoir’s complicated syntax and punctuation as well as to certain usages of language that to us felt a bit awkward at first. One of the difficulties was her extensive use of the semicolon, a punctuation mark that has suffered setbacks over the past decades in English and French and has somewhat fallen into disuse. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 31

Categorization

• QUESTION: What vocabulary did Beauvoir use where Anglophone readers today would expect ‘gender’? Worth noting the exact terms when they appear in the text.
• XREF: Connects to the sex/gender distinction debates in feminist theory that postdate Beauvoir.