Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir''s The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous 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 the concept of ''woman'' in general.
This...
Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir''s The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous 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 the concept of ''woman'' in general.
This...