# The Second Sex

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- Book: [The Second Sex](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-second-sex) ([The Second Sex.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-second-sex.md))
- Authors: [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-137-4
- Pages: 786
- Published: 1993-03-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## 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.