Extracts From: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Extracts From: The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir with Martine Reid (Contributor), Natalie Haynes (Contributor), Constance Borde (Translator), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)

144 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 l...

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