About the Book: The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an
introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it
was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so
forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoirs belief that One is not born,
but rather becomes, a woman switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation
of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These
pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women
forever..
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