The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Vintage, 1997
Rs 775

Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women stands, five decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time. Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, hers will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis.

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