De Beauvoir’s famous book, The Second Sex (2011), was the first major study of gender politics. The book was received as scandalous and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (list of prohibited books) by the Vatican Catholic Church. De Beauvoir was described as vulgar, frustrated, obsessed with sex, a nymphomaniac. In The Second Sex she traced the nature of male oppression through historical, literary, and mythical sources. She attributes the oppression of women to a systematic objectification of the female as “Other.” Men have regarded themselves as “subject” and woman the “Other” in society by putting a false aura of “mystery” around the woman. This gendered image of women as mysterious could be used as an excuse for claiming not being able to understand women and their problems and for not treating women as equals. De Beauvoir’s study of female oppression by males became the lens through which the domination and subjugation of the powerless by the powerful could be understood: the oppression of blacks by whites, the colonized by the colonizer, the poor by the rich, and so on. It is hard for those who dominate to acknowledge their privileged position and to relinquish in their individual and social lives the overt and covert power policies of control.