The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

Le deuxième sexe #1-2

Simone de Beauvoir with H.M. Parshley (Translator)

848 pages first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A major book in the history of feminism, which, when it was first published in the 1950s, was considered a radical thesis. But its claim that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but a product of social conditioning is now widely acc...

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informative 89%
reflective 74%
challenging 65%
inspiring 34%
emotional 10%
dark 8%
hopeful 7%
sad 7%
tense 6%
funny 1%
lighthearted 1%

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