second sex

American  

noun

1. one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.

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Etymology

Origin of second sex

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

She cites Simone de Beauvoir's feminist pamphlet The Second Sex, translated into Dutch by a man.

From BBC

For the most part, we watch them perform some light cosplay of the second “Sex and the City” movie: taking a whirlwind girls’ trip to Doha and lounging poolside in diaphanous caftans, or wearing Gucci to do volunteer work cleaning trash from a beach.

From New York Times

Beauvoir started writing the novel in 1954, five years after publishing her groundbreaking feminist treatise “The Second Sex.”

From New York Times

At the same time, the BFI is showing 36 of the hundreds of films mentioned, so that viewers can enjoy full immersion over weeks, possibly awarding themselves a degree in, say, The Cinema of the Second Sex afterwards.

From The Guardian

Written in 1954, in the first person, the novel sees the author of feminist classic The Second Sex, published five years earlier, tell the story of the beginning of the friendship, as Andrée, or Zaza, joins the same class as Sylvie, or Simone.

From The Guardian