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The Second Sex

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By (author): Simone de Beauvoir

Translated by: Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER
ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID

'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian

Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.

Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 619g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2015
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780099595731

About Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937 and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.

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