Extracts from The Second Sex

By Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde

This book is an extract from the original text

Penguin Vintage Feminism

Paperback

Pages: 144

ISBN: 9781784870386

When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoirs belief that One is not born, but rather becomes, woman switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. these pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.