Second Sex (Vintage Publishing)

"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, a woman'. In this seminal work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, comes in the form of challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in economic independence. Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.