Read Simone de Beauvoir's classic work of second wave feminism, in an abridged, digestible form.
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became
the youngest person ever to obtain the agregation in philosophy at
the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the
lycees at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937, and in Paris from
1938-1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the
existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps
Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins
(1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of
the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in
1986.
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier have lived in Paris
for over forty years and are both graduates of Rutgers University,
New Jersey. Borde was on the faculty of the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques and has been chair and vice-chair of American Democrats
Abroad. Malovany-Chevallier was a full- time faculty member at the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques and continues to teach American
literature. They have been translating books and articles on social
science, art and feminist literature for twenty-five years and have
jointly authored numerous books in French on subjects ranging from
grammar to politics to American cooking.
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
*Bel Mooney*
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
*Susie Orbach*
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*
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