"TheSecondSex"bySimonedeBeauvoirisagroundbreakingworkoffeministphilosophythatexaminesthetreatmentandperceptionofwomenthroughouthistory.OriginallypublishedinFrenchin1949as"LeDeuxièmeSexe,"theEnglishtranslationbyH.M.Parshleyappearedin1953.Thisseminaltextanalyzeshowwomenhavebeensystematicallyoppressedanddefinedas"theOther"inamale-dominatedsociety.Beauvoir'sfamousdeclaration"Oneisnotborn,butratherbecomes,awoman"challengesbiologicaldeterminismandarguesthatgenderrolesaresociallyconstructed.Thebookcoverstopicsrangingfrombiologyandpsychoanalysistohistoricalmaterialismandmythology,offeringacomprehensivecritiqueofpatriarchalstructures.Itsinfluenceonfeministtheoryandthewomen'sliberationmovementremainsprofounddecadesafteritspublication.
