Simone de Beauvoir ThThe Story Behind Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex,’ the Most Influential Work of Existentialism

By Sarah Bakewell March 10, 2016 - Flavorwire

With characteristic erudition, accessibility, intellectual seriousness, and good humor, Sarah Bakewell’s robust new history of existentialism, At the Existentialist Café, traces the history of the movement. In the below excerpt, Bakewell explores Simone de Beauvoir’s revolutionary The Second Sex, which, as she explains, is existentialism’s most important and influential work.
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