Simone de Beauvoir, a French existentialist writer, once wrote a book about women entitled, The Second Sex. The book was an analysis of women in their economic and social roles throughout history. It was far from being a book about how women should be won, but as part of her treatment of the social structure and the relationship of men and women in society, she devoted some pages to the power that women hold over men.She said a woman holds power over a man by being "the other," by bein