The Second Sex (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Beauvoir, Simone De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679420169 ISBN 13: 9780679420163

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1993

Synopsis

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by Margaret Crosland; Translation by H. M. Parshley

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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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Introduction by Margaret Crosland; Translation by H. M. Parshley

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679420169
• ISBN 13: 9780679420163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 848