num_pages: 814
description: Simone de Beauvoir wrote this controversial work of self-discovery to confront the question, "What is a woman?"
language: English
title: The Second Sex
titlecomplete: The Second Sex
genres: Gender, France, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Womens, Feminism, Classics, Sociology, Gender Studies
ratings_count: 40058
series: Le deuxième sexe
publisher: Vintage