The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired
generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia
Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential
rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of
knowledge.” —Vogue
This unabridged
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 when it was first published, and will continue
to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.