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In her “reading” of The Second Sex, the author of Gender Trouble, while claiming to support the famous Beauvoirian statement: “One is not born, but rather becomes, woman”, claims to go beyond Simone de Beauvoir’s universalist statement. The butlerian “deconstruction” of Beauvoir, apart from the fact that it is based on a whole series of shifts and mistranslations, ends up with a version of feminism that gives short shrift to women’s real emancipation.