The Second Sex
  • Published: 28 May 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857151374
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 786
  • RRP: $42.99

The Second Sex

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2 Mar 2015
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3 Jan 2011
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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

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.
  • Published: 28 May 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857151374
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 786
  • RRP: $42.99
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