The second sex

The second sex

by Beauvoir, Simone de

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Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to prov…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; with an introduction by Judith Thurman.

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Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Vintage
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Originally published: Paris : Editions Gallimard, 1949.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxi, 800 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780307277787, 030727778X
  • oclc:ocn705522798
  • LC Classification:HQ1208
  • Dewey Decimal:305.401

Subjects

Feminism Feminism -- teori, filosofi -- Frankrike Feminisme Femmes Genus (socialt kön) -- teori, filosofi … PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist T… Women

Writers

Beauvoir, Simone de Borde, Constance Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila Thurman, Judith

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