Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
[7] Existentialist feminists emphasize concepts such as freedom, interpersonal relationships, and the experience of living as a human body.
[9] A woman who makes considered choices regarding her way of life and suffers the anxiety associated with that freedom, isolation, or nonconformity, yet remains free, demonstrates the tenets of existentialism.
[8] Beauvoir examined women's subordinate role as the 'Other', patriarchally forced into immanence[11] in her book, The Second Sex, which some claim to be the culmination of her existential ethics.
[12] The book includes the famous line, "One is not born but becomes a woman," introducing what has come to be called the sex-gender distinction.
Margery Collins and Christine Pierce fault Sartre's limited anti-essentialism for his sexist views[8] which Hazel Barnes then refutes.
[8] Jo-Ann Pilardi outlines the female eroticism in Beauvoir's work[8] and Julien Murphy compares the gaze or look in Sartre to Adrienne Rich.