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Informationen zum Autor Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne! placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937! and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war! she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement! working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt! de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier have lived in Paris for over forty years and are both graduates of Rutgers University! New Jersey. Borde was on the faculty of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and has been chair and vice-chair of American Democrats Abroad. Malovany-Chevallier was a full- time faculty member at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and continues to teach American literature. They have been translating books and articles on social science! art and feminist literature for twenty-five years and have jointly authored numerous books in French on subjects ranging from grammar to politics to American cooking. Klappentext TRANSLATED BY H.M. PARSHLEY Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement! Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology! of biology and psychoanalysis! from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. THE SECOND SEX stands! four 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. Zusammenfassung THE SECOND SEX stands! four 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. ...
