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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1989 · 800 pages
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.
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Laura R Walker
“For young women, I get The Second Sex, which I read when I was studying in Paris.”↗
Diane von Furstenberg
““Simone de Beauvoir was an intellectual, writer, existentialist and philosopher. I really admired that. I don’t remember having read The Second Sex all in one go – I studied it and analysed it – but it just had an impact. But as a woman she had so much impact as well. She wrote about women’s oppression, freedom, and not being overpowered by a man. It’s all about equality.” -DvF”↗
Betsey Stevenson
“@MarcieBianco That book so deeply influenced me and re-reading it just makes me feel a little defeated.”↗
