 For contemporary feminists, the question of who or what women are is not easily answered. Both analytic and continental traditions find a clear articulation of the problem in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book, The Second Sex where she famously claims that “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” (1953, 281). Elizabeth Spelman’s consideration of this claim (1988) can serve as a basis for the analytic tradition’s reflections on the question of who or what women are meant to be while Judith Butler’s analysis (1990) can do the same for the continental tradition. 