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**The Second Sex** (French: *Le Deuxième Sexe*) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history.
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“Woman? Very simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female-this word is sufficient to define her.”
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of [Jean-Paul Sartre][1] and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise [Le deuxième sexe][2] (1949, The Second Sex) is among the most widely read feminist works. ([Source][3].) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/a/OL896456A/Jean-Paul_Sartre [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL767937W/Le_deuxie%CC%80me_sexe [3]: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm
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