| The Second Sex |  | Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Creator: H. M. Parshley
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 120,897
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 800
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 1.3 x 8
ISBN: 0679724516
EAN: 9780679724513
ASIN: 0679724516
Publication Date: December 17, 1989
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Product Description
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
Amazon.com Review
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement.
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