. . . . . . "Simone de Beauvoir wrote her controversial work of self-discovery to confront the questions: what is a woman?"@en . . . . . . . . "The second sex" . . "The second sex"@en . . . . "This ... revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about themselves. Drawing extensive interviews with women of every age and station of life, masterfully synthesizing research about women's bodies and psyches as well as their historic and economic roles, [this book] is an encyclopedic and ... argued document of inequality and enforced \"otherness.\" -Back cover." . . . "History"@en . . . . . . . .