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Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Simone de Beauvoir; Constance Borde; Sheila Malovany-Chevallier; Martine Reid; Natalie Haynes |
ISBN: | 9781473521919 1473521912 |
OCLC Number: | 1100843188 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Other Titles: | Second sex |
Responsibility: | Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; annotated and introduced by Martine Reid with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. |
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A masterpiece * Vogue * Discovering The Second Sex was like an explosion in my skull, shattering illusions bred in a conventional fifties childhood...Re-reading the book now I realise how much of it is still entirely relevant, and that (despite advances) women are as much in need of liberation as ever De Beauvoir was not just a genius as a theorist. She dared to live it. Challenging conventional marriage and sexual practice, she used her own experience to explore the emotional costs of jealousy, attachment, monogamy, bohemianism, sexuality, of love A fine piece of work, a lucid translation * Independent * 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 * Irish Times * Read more...

