The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir #literature Lonely Planet Kids introduces you

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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir #literature Lonely Planet Kids introduces youTRANSLATED 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 Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails