Even though Beauvoir’s influence on the works of such radical feminists as Firestone and Kate Millet has been widely acknowledged, not much attention has been given to Beauvoir’s connection to Andrea Dworkin, arguable one of the most provocative and controversial figures in radical feminism. It is no surprise that one of the most prominent radical feminists of the 1960s, Shulamith Firestone, dedicated her famous work, The Dialectics of Sex, to Beauvoir, as Firestone owes much of her view on ontology of the female body to Beauvoir’s ontology. While Simone de Beauvoir is not commonly regarded as a radical feminist, if one were to analyze critically her ontological and ethical positions, one would be able to make the connection between her work-in particular, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex-and the positions later taken by radical feminists in second wave feminist thought.
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