The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

Vintage Books, Mar 2, 2015 - Feminism - 864 pages

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

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User Review  - Ghost_Boy - LibraryThing

A low and long read, but worth it. This has been on my reading list since college. I'm glad I didn't read this in college, it's way too long and I probably wouldn't have understood most of this at the ...

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User Review  - Jthierer - LibraryThing

This book consists of three parts all jumbled-up together so that some of the still relevant gets missed in the "WTF did I just read." One part is a solid historical look at what the life of women ...

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Second Sex; Vintage classics
• Author: Simone de Beauvoir
• Translated by: Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage Books, 2015
• ISBN: 0099595737, 9780099595731
• Length: 864 pages