The Second Sex

Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir; Constance Borde (Translator); Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)

Culture & Ideas

Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of pennetrating imaginative power.THE SECOND SEX stands, five decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time


Product Information

Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes. A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation of Simone De Beauvoir's landmark work.

General Fields

  • : 9780099499381
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 1.082
  • : January 2011
  • : 234mm X 153mm X 49mm
  • : February 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 848
  • : Paperback
  • : Simone de Beauvoir; Constance Borde (Translator); Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)