A liberal feminist who declared that ‘women are made, not born’, learning a nurturing instinct from parents and school. She stressed education, economic freedom, legalised abortion and widespread contraception.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) expressed this idea succinctly:
‘Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority. links to equality
