From “Brilliant study” to “One Woman’s outcry Against Her Nature”: “The Second Sex” in the 1950s American Scientific Journals

Simone de Beauvoir?s The Second Sex has been considered as one of the most crucial books that influenced second wave feminists, who mobilized during 1960s and 1970s new massive feminist movement in America. This article analyses reception book American scientific/academic journals, way, contributes to field periodical studies. article, first, post-war context with focus on status role women society, then, moves enquire into five scientific published 1953 1954. political is intertwined absence critical reflexion among first authors wrote about regarding 1950s language, key topics for critiques (that primarily French; it cannot apply context; non-scientific, despite publisher?s promotion, does not provide directions social changes Beauvoir calls for; finally, problematic arguments motherhood married women).