num_pages: 872
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: Italian
title: Il secondo sesso
titlecomplete: Il secondo sesso
genres: Classics, Feminism, France, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Gender, Politics, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 40045
series: Le deuxième sexe
publisher: Il saggiatore