The Second Sex"First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration. Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism. Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties."--Publisher's description. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingA dense book in which de Beauvoir attempts to define a feminist view of the world, and to explain the differentiation of that view from the masculine. There is a lot of close reasoning, but a serious ... Read full review
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User Review - puabi - LibraryThingThis phenomenal tome, translated very readably and completely here as far as I can tell, by Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, is utterly gripping, moving, intense, and a true life-changing experience ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Second Sex Vintage classics |
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Translated by | Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier |
| Contributor | Sheila Malovany-Chevallier |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 2010 |
| ISBN | 009949938X, 9780099499381 |
| Length | 822 pages |
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