THE Second SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement.
In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir\'s then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking..
It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism.
THE Second SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement