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The publication of The Second Sex — Modern feminism’s founding book, 1949
Twenty-two thousand copies in a week, a scandal — Mauriac was outraged, the Vatican eventually put the book on the Index — and a sentence that went around the world. Translated everywhere, The Second Sex became the bible of feminisms to come. (Editorial synthesis)
The publication of The Second Sex took place in Paris. (source: BnF)
The publication of The Second Sex ended in “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”. (source: Larousse)
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