Just over seven decades ago, the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex. It quickly became a seminal work in the feminist canon, and created a framework for thinking about gender as a historical and social construct, not simply a matter of biology. While the book’s influence on feminist thought is well-documented, an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth looks at its impact on visual art. Some of the works on view—Louise Bourgeois’s 1994 sculpture Femme Maison and an untitled painting by Eva Hesse—explicitly reference Beauvoir. Others, such as photographs by Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson, explore the subject of gender more broadly. —Jensen Davis