The Second Sex
Beauvoir's study of how woman came to be defined as the other, in the unabridged Borde and Malovany-Chevallier translation.
Beauvoir asks how woman came to be defined as the other against which man is the norm, and answers across biology, psychoanalysis, history, myth and lived experience. Published in 1949 and placed on the Vatican’s index, it supplied second-wave feminism with its founding analysis. This is the unabridged Borde and Malovany-Chevallier translation.
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Erica Jong
The French literary world is incredibly sexist and here was one of their darlings pointing out how much they discriminate. It’s just like Tahrir Square in Egypt – freedom is for everyone, but not for women. Simone de Beauvoir pointed that out in a million ways. It is a seminal text for feminists to read, even for the sake of arguing with it. She deals with the sexism that still exists in the literary world.
Interview · August 2012
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