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