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The Second Sex
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‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration.Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism. Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties.
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| Weight | 0.93 kg |
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| Dimensions | 4.5 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm |
| by | Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila Rowbotham, Simone de Beauvoir |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 848 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2010-11-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 009949938X |
| About The Author | Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937, and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986. |
A masterpiece |
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| Other text | Discovering The Second Sex was like an explosion in my skull, shattering illusions bred in a conventional fifties childhood…Re-reading the book now I realise how much of it is still entirely relevant, and that (despite advances) women are as much in need of liberation as ever |
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