Woman? Very simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female-this word is sufficient to define her.
An edition of Le Deuxième Sexe
(1949)
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
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This ... revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about themselves. Drawing extensive interviews with women of every age and station of life, masterfully synthesizing research about women's bodies and psyches as well as their historic and economic roles, [this book] is an encyclopedic and ... argued document of inequality and enforced "otherness."--P. [4] of cover.
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Women, Sex, Feminism, Sexual Behavior, Non-Fiction, Gender, Gender Studies, Theory, Philosophy, Sociology, Classics, Cultural, France, Sexuality, Economics, Biology, Deuxième sexe (Beauvoir, Simone de), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, New York Times reviewed, Féminisme, Society, Social sciences, Women's studies, Teori, filosofi, Genus (socialt kön), Hq1208 .b352 1989, Reference, Dictionaries, Sex rolePlaces
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"Woman? Very simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female-this word is sufficient to define her."
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The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published the work in two volumes: Facts and Myths (Les faits et les mythes), and Lived Experience (L’expérience vécue). Some chapters first appeared in the journal Les Temps modernes. One of Beauvoir’s best-known books, The Second Sex is often regarded as a major work of feminist philosophy, and as the starting inspiration point of second-wave feminism.
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