SOURCE: "Ambiguity and Alienation in The Second Sex," in Boundary 2, Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 96-112.
In the following essay, Moi discusses Beauvoir's philosophical analysis of female oppression in The Second Sex. "For Simone de Beauvoir," writes Moi, "women are fundamentally characterized by ambiguity and conflict."
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