Le deuxième sexe 1
by Beauvoir, Simone de
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear. In this first volume of her paradigm-shifting treatise, Beauvoir illustrates the patriarchal 'horror of female fertility' (as translated by Howard Parshley) that has dominated the age by citing an 1878 British Medical Journal article claiming, 'It is an indisputable fact that meat goes bad when touched by menstruating women.' Her argument is strengthened by the book's antipathetic reception by everyone from the Vatican to Francisco Franco to Alfred Kinsey, who dismissed it due to its lack of scientific data. This beautiful edition features a cover by Henry Cohen (after a photo by Louis-Yves Loirat), whose prolific film photography work for Gallimard's Idées nrf (the publisher's nonfictional answer to Le Livres de poche) often incorporated a variety of Man Ray–inspired filtering and distortive effects, and is described by Rick Poynor as 'possess[ing] the same "must have" factor as Penguin paperbacks of the era; the exquisite designs planted a seed of desire to see and read more.' 510 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 931206
- Title
- Le deuxième sexe 1
- Author
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Éditions Gallimard
- Date Published
- 1984
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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