The Second Sex
By (author): "Margaret Crosland, H. M. Parshley, Simone de Beauvoir"
Publish Date:
1949
ISBN1857151372
ISBN139781857151374
AsinThe Second Sex
Original titleLe deuxième sexe: I. Les faits et les mythes, II. L'expérience vécue
SeriesLe deuxième sexe #1-2
The Second Sex is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.