Original publication date
1949
Pages
xlii; 746
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York: Vintage Books, c1952; Vintage Books Edition, September 1989; 6th printing, later date
Physical description
xlii, 746 p.; 20.2 cm
ISBN
0679724516 / 9780679724513
Language
Original language
French
Description
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.