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The second sex (New edition)

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'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should readThe Second Sex'Guardian

Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.

Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology,The Second Sexis as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

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Vintage Digital
1446442713 / 9781446442715
eBook (EPUB)
305.42
05/06/2014
England
English
681 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Translated from the French This edition previously issued in print: London: Vintage, 2010 Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.