Simone de Beauvoir : le masculin en question

The representation of the male gender in the work of Simone de Beauvoir, or rather her representations of the males and the male characters in her works are more complex than what has been claimed by stating that she sought to assimilate the feminine gender to the masculine and that the man was her universal model. Since her first steps as writer with Les Cahiers de jeunesse and throughout her work, she distanced herself from the male who also appear as the sex that kills. If she criticized women and the feminine gender, she criticized equally severely men and the male one.