Friendship Between Women in Beauvoir's The Second Sex - Talia Fell Progress Review 2

In this presentation, I analyse what Simone de Beauvoir writes in The Second Sex (1949) about how girls or women relate to each other. Beauvoir’s account of friendship between women, I argue, is predominately focused on how they relate to each other in their object-mode-of-being, describing how patriarchal contexts limit the quality of such friendships. I extend Beauvoir’s account to analyse what it might mean for women to be subjects together, experiencing friendships that open up possibilities of existential freedom.