1. Catherine Rodgers, ‘Elisabeth Badinter and The Second Sex: An Interview’, Signs, 21 (1995), 147–162.
2. Elisabeth Badinter, L’Amour en plus: histoire de l’amour maternal (XVIIe–XXe siècle) (Paris: Flammarion, 1980).
3. Elisabeth Badinter, XY: De l’identité masculine (Paris: Odile Jacob), 1986.
4. ‘Her [Millett’s] views of patriarchal politics are obviously deeply influenced by Simone de Beauvoir’s pioneering analysis in The Second Sex, but this debt is never acknowledged by Millett, who makes only two tangential references to Beauvoir’s essay.’ Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (London and New York: Methuen, 1985), p. 25.
5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Qu’est-ce que la littérature? (Paris: Gallimard, 1948).