# The Independent Woman

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- Book: [The Independent Woman](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-independent-woman) ([The Independent Woman.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-independent-woman.md))
- Authors: [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-2556-340-2
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2018-11-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Like man, woman is a human being.” When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it...