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.
| ISBN: | 9781857151374 |
| Publication date: | 18th March 1993 |
| Author: | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 786 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Feminism and feminist theory |