Read Simone de Beauvoir's classic work of second wave feminism, in an abridged, digestible form.
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agregation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycees 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.
A masterpiece * Vogue *
Discovering The Second Sex was like an explosion in my
skull, shattering illusions bred in a conventional fifties
childhood...Re-reading the book now I realise how much of it is
still entirely relevant, and that (despite advances) women are as
much in need of liberation as ever -- Bel Mooney
De Beauvoir was not just a genius as a theorist. She dared to live
it. Challenging conventional marriage and sexual practice, she used
her own experience to explore the emotional costs of jealousy,
attachment, monogamy, bohemianism, sexuality, of love -- Susie
Orbach
A fine piece of work, a lucid translation * Independent *
A fresh, much expanded, more intelligible book which repays
re-reading by adherents of the old version, and cries out for
attention from young women who have not been exposed to this most
powerful of feminist thinkers * Irish Times *
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