The Second Sex

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The Second Sex is Simone de Beauvoir’s landmark 1949 feminist philosophical work that analyzes the historical, social, and existential construction of women’s oppression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
feminist text
non-fiction book
philosophical work
author Simone de Beauvoir
centralConcept bad faith
becoming a woman
immanence and transcendence
woman as Other
countryOfOrigin France
firstEnglishPublicationYear 1953
form historical analysis
philosophical essay
sociological analysis
genre existentialist philosophy
feminist philosophy
social philosophy
hasEnglishTranslation The Second Sex (Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier translation)
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The Second Sex (H.M. Parshley translation)
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influenced Betty Friedan
Judith Butler
Simone de Beauvoir scholarship
second-wave feminism
literaryMovement existentialism
second-wave feminism
notableQuote One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
originalLanguage French
originalTitle Le Deuxième Sexe
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philosophicalSchool existentialism
phenomenology
publicationYear 1949
publisher Éditions Gallimard
structure two volumes
subject existential freedom
gender roles
history of women
marriage
motherhood
otherness
patriarchy
sexuality
women's oppression
theme body and sexuality
economic dependence of women
freedom and responsibility
historical subordination of women
myths of femininity
social construction of gender
volumeTitle Facts and Myths
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Simone de Beauvoir notableWork The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir notableWork Le Deuxième Sexe
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The Second Sex originalTitle Le Deuxième Sexe
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The Second Sex hasEnglishTranslation The Second Sex (H.M. Parshley translation)
linked to: The Second Sex
The Second Sex hasEnglishTranslation The Second Sex (Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier translation)
linked to: The Second Sex
second-wave feminism influencedBy The Second Sex