The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

"This is no piece of flamboyant journalism and certainly not a petulant defense of her sex. Nor is it merely an extended essay, although it is indeed literature in the grand sense. Essentially this is a treatise which integrates the most variegated strands of history, philosophy, economics, biology, belles-lettres, sociology and anthropology. I cannot think of a single American scholar, man or woman, who controls such a vast body of knowledge as this French writer....It is a truly magnificent book..."Simone de Beauvoir is the author of 'The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780679420163 and ISBN 0679420169.