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The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir’s essay, published in two volumes by Gallimard in 1949
An essay in two volumes — Facts and Myths, Lived Experience — written in fourteen months and published four years after Frenchwomen first voted. It holds that the condition imposed on women is historical and not biological; the Catholic right and the Communist left attacked it together, and the Vatican put it on the Index. (Editorial synthesis)
The Second Sex was published in 1949. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir.
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