The Second Sex
By Simone De Beauvoir
(Everyman's Library, Hardcover, 9780679420163, 848pp.)
Publication Date: March 9, 1993
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (April 13, 2010), Audio Cassette (May 1995), Paperback (December 17, 1989), Hardcover (June 1953)
Categories: Feminism & Feminist Theory
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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Margaret Crosland; Translation by H. M. Parshley
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. She died in 1986.
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, both American, are longtime residents of France and former teachers at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.
Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Praise from the UK for the new edition of The Second Sex:
“[A] masterpiece. . . . Restores essential passages that have been missing for 60 years.” —The Times
“Groundbreaking. . . . A fresh, much expanded, more intelligible book which repays re-reading by adherents of the old version, and cries out for attention from young women who have not been exposed to this most powerful of feminist thinkers. The Second Sex [is] the foundation text of second-wave feminism. It is probably the most important and influential philosophical treatise of the 20th century.” —The Irish Times
“The Second Sex is an inquiry into a subject with profound implications for the entire human race, and its ideas are as fresh and inspiring as they were when [Beauvoir] began work. . . . Now Beauvoir’s great work is available in a full English translation for the first time. . . . It is a fine piece of work, a lucid translation.” —The Independent
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