A review by caramin
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Can't really rate it since I found the first book to be really insightful and interesting, while the second part, before the last chapter, uses examples that, to me, felt less universal, and more pathological, less like girlhood and more like OCD or other mental disorders, which I'm not saying don't (or can't) be caused be a claustrophobia society, but those things should not be used as a universal way to look at the development of the woman's view of the self and other. 
I recommend the first part and The Independent Woman, the last chapter, but the second book feels outdated, and one can see that Freud's theories were fresh out the oven.