sentences:  As an existentialist, de Beauvoir accepted Jean-Paul Sartre's precept that "existence precedes essence"; hence "one is not born a woman, but becomes one".Her analysis focuses on the social construction of Woman as the Other, this de Beauvoir identifies as fundamental to women's oppression.She argues that women have historically been considered deviant and abnormal, and contends that even Mary Wollstonecraft considered men to be the ideal toward which women should aspire.