Book · 1949 · Nonfiction

The Second Sex

Name: The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 832 pages

★ 8.7 editorial score

One is not born a woman, Beauvoir argues, but becomes one. She works through biology, history, myth, marriage, and old age to prove it, and modern feminism begins in these pages.

Genre

Philosophy Feminist philosophy Feminism

Subject

Oppression of women Women

Time

1949

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“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

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