Entre a consagração e a controvérsia: a recepção crítica de O segundo sexo no Brasil

Abstract

This article investigates the reception of Simone de Beauvoir's work, *The Second Sex*, in the contemporary Brazilian academic context, with special attention to the processes of circulation, appropriation, and legitimation of Beauvoir's thought within the scope of feminist and gender studies in literary criticism. It is based on the assumption that the meanings attributed to a work are historically produced and mediated by institutional, editorial, and discursive practices.

Methodologically, the research articulates a qualitative bibliographical approach with bibliometric procedures, analyzing scientific articles, dissertations, and theses published between 2010 and 2025. The theoretical framework mobilized includes contributions from Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, as well as contributions from the theory of reception and circulation of texts, with emphasis on the works of Roger Chartier and Pierre Bourdieu, in order to problematize the interpretative frameworks that guide the readings of The Second Sex in Brazil. The results show that, although the work remains a canonical and structuring reference in the academic field, its wide circulation does not translate, proportionally, into theoretical-analytical deepening. It is observed that its reception is marked by asymmetries, interpretative disputes, and recurring conceptual silences, which reveals both the limits and the tensions that shape the incorporation of Beauvoir's thought into the national academic debate