A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Essay
Modern · Philosophy, social theory
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir analyzes how woman has been constructed as the Other and calls for existential and material liberation.
- Date
- 1949
- Origin
- France
- Era
- Modern
- Genre
- Philosophy, social theory
- Difficulty
- Very challenging
- Length
- Very long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Beauvoir analyzes how woman has been constructed as the Other and calls for existential and material liberation.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of modern broader canon. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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