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The Second Sex
THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the …
Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.
Second Sex
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second …
What Is Existentialism?
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth …
The Coming of Age
What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead …
The Woman Destroyed
In three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their …
The Ethics of Ambiguity
From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French …
Philosophical Writings
The first complete, scholarly edition of Beauvoir's essays in English translationDespite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is …
The Mandarins
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the …
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources …
A Very Easy Death
A poignant account of her mother's death from cancer.
Woman Destroyed
First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, …