The second sex
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-19862010
Book
One is not born, but rather becomes, woman' First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqu book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration. Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism. Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties.
Main title:
The second sex / Simon de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; with an introduction by Sheila Rowbotham.
Author:
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986, authorBorde, Constance, translatorMalovany-Chevallier, Sheila, translator, writer of introduction
Work:
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2010.©2009
Collation:
xxv, 822 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
This edition originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2009.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
009949938X (pbk)9780099499381 (pbk)9780099499381 (paperback)
Dewey class:
305.42
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
BRN:
121043
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| City Library | -Society | SOCIETY 305.42 BEAU | Available |
| East Melbourne Library | -Society | SOCIETY 305.42 BEAU | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 305.42 BEAU | Available |