The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. From Eves apple to Virginia Woolfs room of her own, Beauvoirs 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, Beauvoirs 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.