Simone De Beauvoir’s the Second Sex: New Interdisciplinary Essays

Hailed by some feminists as the single most important theoretical work of this century, but ignored or reviled by others, Simone de Beauvoir’s The second sex (1949) occupies an anomalous and even uneasy place in the feminist ‘canon’. Yet it has had an undeniable impact not only on the development of critiques of sexual politics but on twentieth-century Western thinking about ‘woman’ in general.