A review by jg12389
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.5

It only took me two and a half years to finish it, but finish it I did! Finally. The first half is a ton of theory and is extremely dense and because it was written so long ago, a lot of it went over my head. And while there were a lot of generalities made in this book on all sides, and some of the ideas and language used would frankly be considered wrong, immoral, and/or disparaging these days, a lot of the core ideas she is arguing remain the same today, which is both enlightening and depressing. But seriously, skip the first half or just read a summary of this book, it's not for the faint of heart. Glad I finished it though!