The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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- Pub. Date: January 1990
- 800pp
- Sales Rank: 26,778
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 1990
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 800pp
- Sales Rank: 26,778
- Series: Vintage Series
- ISBN-13: 9780679724513
- ISBN: 0679724516
Synopsis
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Clyde Kluckhorn
...The Second Sexhas what Plutarch said of the buildings on the Acropolis: " there is a certain flourishing freshness in it." it is a threadbare cliche to speak of not doing justice to a book, but in this case I must resort to the cliche, for I have never been so acutely conscious of incomplete justice. Books of the Century, New York Times review, February, 1953
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. She died in 1986.
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, both American, are longtime residents of France and former teachers at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.
Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Difficult To Classifyby Anonymous
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November 06, 2006: The text is a masterpiece and has changed how we think of women and womanhood. The translation, however, is deplorable. There are omissions which alter Beauvoir's meaning, and key philosophical terms are mistranslated, giving the impression that some sections mean the opposite of what they say in the original French. Knopf needs to either release a new translation, or allow someone else to do so, so we don't have to wait for this very important, but sorely misunderstood work to go into public domain.
A Masterpieceby Anonymous
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May 04, 2006: This is a must read piece of literature. De Beauvoir's agruments are well written and show a lot of insight.
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