Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex (Short Edition)

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 Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, 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.

Part of the Vintage Feminism Short Series - abridged editions of classic feminist texts.

Also in the Vintage Feminist Short Edition Series:
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman   paperback
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth   paperback
Virginia Woolf - A Room Of One's Own   paperback
Emmeline Pankhurst - My Own Story   paperback

Complete edition:
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex   paperback