An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
$14.43
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2017
Summary
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.
The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the clarity of her critical thinking skills. She builds a strong argument against the silen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912127580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 191212758X |
| Series: | The Macat Library |
| Author: | Rachele Dini |
| Publisher: | Macat International Limited |
| Imprint: | Macat International Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
About The Author
Rachele Dini
Dr Rachele Dini studied at Cambridge, King’s College London and University College London. Much of her current work focuses on the representation of production and consumption in modern and contemporary Anglo-American fiction. She teaches at Cambridge and for the Foundation for International Education, and her first monograph, Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.
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