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The Second Sex
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 Vintage Reissue edition (1989) |
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| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre(s) | Philosophical Feminist |
| Publisher | |
| Released | 1949 |
| Media type | Hardback Softback |
| Pages | 800 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-679-72451-6 |
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949) is the best known work of Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir wrote the book after attempting to write about herself. The first thing she wrote was that she was a woman, but she realized that she needed to define what a woman was, which became the intent of the book. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major feminist work. In it she argues that women throughout history have been defined as the "other" sex, an aberration from the "normal" male sex.
- 'The Second Sex' by Simone de Beauvoir (Free English Translation)
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