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- 1993
- year of publication
- 786
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Hardcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Everyman
- ISBN-13
- 978-18-5715-137-4
- EAN
- 9781857151374
- Publication date
- 1993-03-18
- Book
- The Second Sex · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
