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Epilogue: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

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The Second Sex

In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir is writing the second sex. She's talking about how women aren't born like a woman is created by the society that she's born into. And I think that even though this was written in the early 90s, the women that were buying it were raised solidly by women who were raised with very strict 1950s baby boomer gender roles. Tons of people wrote into us. Let's go through some listener mail.

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