
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID' Everyone who cares about freedom & justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote ' One is not born but rather becomes a woman' In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom & explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes & crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology & biology The Second Sex is as important & relevant today as when it was first published in 1949