The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this

One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these

In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a

“Like man, woman is a human being.” When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly m