书名：The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)第二性（女性主义经典短篇）

作者：Simone de Beauvoir西蒙波伏瓦

出版社名称：Vintage 

出版时间：2015 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781784870386 

商品尺寸：11 x 0.8 x 17.8 cm 

包装：平装

页数：120（以实物为准） The Second Sex《第二性》是法国思想家西蒙娜·波伏娃创作的社会学著作。作者以涵盖哲学、历史、文学、生物学、古代神话和风俗的文化内容为背景，纵论了从原始社会到现代社会的历史演变中，妇女的处境、地位和权利的实际情况，探讨了女性个体发展史所显示的性别差异。

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.

Review

"Discovering The Second Sex was like an explosion in my skull, shattering illusions bred in a conventional fifties childhood...Re-reading the book now I realise how much of it is still entirely relevant, and that (despite advances) women are as much in need of liberation as ever" (Bel Mooney)

"De Beauvoir was not just a genius as a theorist. She dared to live it. Challenging conventional marriage and sexual practice, she used her own experience to explore the emotional costs of jealousy, attachment, monogamy, bohemianism, sexuality, of love" (Susie Orbach)

"A fine piece of work, a lucid translation" (Independent)

"A fresh, much expanded, more intelligible book which repays re-reading by adherents of the old version, and cries out for attention from young women who have not been exposed to this most powerful of feminist thinkers"(Irish Times)

The Second Sex《第二性》分为I、II两卷：I从生物学、精神分析学、历史和女性神话在文学中的体现等方面来分析女性的处境；II从存在主义的哲学理论出发，研究女人在出生、青春期、恋爱、结婚、生育到衰老各个阶段，以及在农妇、女工、妓女、明星或知识分子等各个阶层中的真实处境，探讨女性独立可能的出路。波伏瓦提出了女性获得经济独立的必要性，也强调了只有女性经济地位变化才能带来精神的、社会的、文化的等等后果，只有当女性对自身的意识发生根本的改变，才有可能真正实现男女平等。

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued De Beauvoirs belief that One is not born but rather becomes a woman switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.

西蒙娜德波伏瓦(Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986)，法国哲学家、作家、女性主义者。1929年通过法国哲学教师资格考试，曾在多所学校执教。1945年和让-保罗萨特共同创办《现代》杂志，致力于推介存在主义观点。1949年出版《第二性》，引起极大反响，成为女性主义的经典。1954年凭小说《名士风流》获龚古尔文学奖。她和汉娜阿伦特、苏珊桑塔格并称为西方女性学术的三个中心。

Simone de Beauvoirwas 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.