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Vintage edition of this twentieth century classic, a landmark in the history of feminism. Combining anthropology, sociology, biology and psychoanalysis, as well as her existentialist background, de Beauvoir produced a groundbreaking study of women.
Synopsis
A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.
