num_pages: 848
description: The Second Sex is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.
language: English
title: The Second Sex
titlecomplete: The Second Sex
genres: Gender, Politics, Philosophy, Womens, Classics, Feminism, Nonfiction, Sociology, Gender Studies, France
ratings_count: 40043
series: Le deuxième sexe
publisher: Everyman's Library