The Second Sex - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde (Translator), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)Publish date:2011-05-03Pages:832
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307277787ISBN-10:030727778XUPC:9780307277787Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Gender StudiesSize:8.01 x 5.25 x 1.45 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCKBJASM5M
The Second Sex
The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. "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
This unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation....Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307277787ISBN-10:030727778XUPC:9780307277787Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Gender StudiesSize:8.01 x 5.25 x 1.45 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCKBJASM5M
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 lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from 1938 to 1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps...
Publisher: Vintage
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