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The Second Sex
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  • Published: 10 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9780593147269
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

The Second Sex

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Paperback
2 Mar 2015
Paperback
3 Jan 2011
EBook
5 June 2014
Audiobook
10 Dec 2019
Hardback
28 May 1993
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Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning text of second wave feminism

UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME

Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation, and is now available on audio for the very first time. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
  • Published: 10 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9780593147269
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the author

Simone de Beauvoir

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.
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