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Jessica Rizzo

November 21, 2007

Critical Fem. Studies 

Simone de Beauvoir: The foremother of us all

Jessica Rizzo

November 21, 2007

Critical Fem. Studies

My ideas about feminism have been hugely transformed since I entered this course. What I perceived as a fairly black and white, manageable sort of civil rights issue has exploded into something more complicated than I could have imagined. Apparently, feminism cannot be stripped down to the question, “Should women be entitled to the same rights as men?” To be perfectly honest, I was drawn to the course because Virginia Woolf was mentioned in the course description. I love Virginia Woolf, I love literature, and I want to have as many tools for engaging with literature as possible at my disposal. I imagined that it might be