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a Frenchwoman named Simone de Beauvoir wrote a book called The Second Sex, an American critic commented that she ob- viously "didn't know what life was all about," and besides, she was talking about French women. The "woman problem" in America no longer existed. If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew
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