Influenced by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, in which she advised that women were created not born, that a female was born and then forced into… - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Influenced by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, in which she advised that women were created not born, that a female was born and then forced into the social role of being a woman, we insisted the movement should be called female liberation. (p130)

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About Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1939) is an American historian, writer and feminist.

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