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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.
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The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
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- 1993
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- Title
- The Second Sex
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 848
- ISBN10
- 1857151372
- ISBN13
- 9781857151374
- Series
- The Second Sex
- Collection
- Everyman's library
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Philosophical Topics, Family, Women, France, Society, Feminism, Paris, Gender, Emancipation, Women's Rights
- Original title
- Le deuxième sexe
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
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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.