The Second Sex (Picador Classics S.)

by Simone de Beauvoir

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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.
  • ISBN10 0679724516
  • ISBN13 9780679724513
  • Publish Date 17 December 1989 (first published 27 June 1953)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books
  • Edition Vintage ed
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 746
  • Language English