by Simone De Beauvoir (Author), Simone de Beauvoir (Author)
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.
Format: hardcover
Publisher: Everyman
Published:
ISBN 10: 1857151372
ISBN 13: 9781857151374
The effect of the new translation, which should be applauded, is to make Beauvoir more herself. . . still lively, still apropos. --Slate
This is the edition Beauvoir herself would have wanted, one so true to the original that we can hear her voice in the text. Borde and Malovany-Chevallier's new translation is long overdue, and it is a triumph. --Margaret Simons, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Southern Illinois University
[Borde and Malovany-Chevallier's translation] can be read with confidence, enlightenment, and pleasure. . . . A significant step forward and a remarkable achievement. So if you're one of those people who always meant to read The Second Sex --why not now? --Women's Review of Books
From Eve's apple to Virginia Woolf's room of her own, Beauvoir's treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.
-- Vogue
[A] long-awaited achievement. - Book Bench, newyorke