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The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir · 1949

★★★★½ 4.5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
de Beauvoir's analysis of women as constructed as Other relative to male subjectivity. Part philosophy, part history, part social observation — the founding text of modern feminist thought.
Allo's take
The opening — one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman — holds eight hundred pages of argument. Allo keeps it because the diagnosis has outlasted every proposed cure.
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