Simone de Beauvoir 1949

The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex, 1949, translated by H M Parshley, Penguin 1972;

Written: in French and first published as Le Deuxième Sexe, in 1949;

First Published in English: by Jonathan Cape in 1953;

Transcribed: by Andy Blunden for the Value_of_Knowledge website, 1998;

Proofread: from the Penguin edition by Andy Blunden, February 2005.

Introduction

Chapter One, Biology

Chapter Two, Psychology

Chapter Three, History

from Part II, on the Master-Slave Relation

Conclusion

On the publication of The Second Sex, 1963

The Second Sex, 25 years on, 1976 interview

Biography

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