The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

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Random House, Mar 5, 2015 - Social Science - 144 pages
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Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES

When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER
ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID

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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 ... Read full review

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A 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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Contents

Cover
Editors Note
Note on the Text
Notes
Biography
The History of Vintage

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About the author (2015)

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.

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TitleThe Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism Short Editions
AuthorSimone de Beauvoir
Translated byConstance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Editionreprint
PublisherRandom House, 2015
ISBN1473521912, 9781473521919
Length144 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / Political
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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