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“Like man, woman is a human being.”
 
When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

The Independent Woman

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    A Paperback / softback by Simone De Beauvoir

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      Publisher Random House USA Inc
      Published 6 November 2018
      ISBN-13 9780525563402
      978-0525563402
      ISBN-10 0525563407
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      Gender studies, gender groups Phenomenology and Existentialism Simone de Beauvoir Books by Simone de Beauvoir

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “Like man, woman is a human being.”
       
      When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

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