The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
TRANSLATED BY H.M. PARSHLEYOf all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir’s groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. THE SECOND SEX st….Read More
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