The Second Sex

This woman is so BRILLIANT. Wow! I can see why it is on the list of books to read, and if you want to understand modern-day feminism, this is an important book to read. It is a big commitment. I had to check it out twice because I could not get through it in the 21 days given. 

All that said, she pretty much bags Christianity, and I see no reason to do that. She talks of Christian culture but not following Jesus. Jesus cares for women. :) 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

By Simone de Beauvoir’s own account, Sartre had a critical role in the genesis of The Second Sex. When she told him that she was about to embark upon a memoir of her childhood, he suggested she consider how being a woman had shaped her upbringing and engagement with the world. After some resistance, she took his advice; more than a year and a half of research and reflection—and some eight hundred pages of prose—later, The Second Sex was completed. Its publication in 1949 sent waves of influence through subsequent decades as its arguments and insights disrupted, redirected, and recalibrated conventional thinking about the lives of women. Both formative and transformative, Beauvoir’s scrutiny of the physical, social, and existential experience of women in the West is a groundbreaking work of feminism—and humanism, too.