Woman You Become

“Everyone agrees there are females in the human species;
today, as in the past, they make up about half of humanity;
and yet we are told that “femininity is in jeopardy”;
we are urged, “Be women, stay women, become women.”
So not every female human being is necessarily a woman;
she must take part in this mysterious
and endangered reality known as femininity.”
[…] “If the female function is not enough to define woman,
and if we also reject the explanation of the “eternal feminine,”
but if we accept, even temporarily,
that there are women on the earth, we then have to ask:
What is a woman?”
Excerpt From: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

The women who feature
in Emmanuellle Argyropoulou’s collection of photography portraits,
“Woman , You Become”,
respond to Simone de Beauvoir’s timely question.
Each portrait rests on pages of this book,
while each woman is identified with elements of Nature and Art.