Overview
THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. 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.
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.
- | Author: Simone de Beauvoir
- | Publisher: Everyman
- | Publication Date: Mar 18, 1993
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781857151374
- | ISBN-10: 1857151372
