https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Translating-the-Second-Sex https://booksandideas.net/Translating-the-Second-Sex 2011-11-17T12:56:24Z text/html en Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier France Philosophy gender feminism translation existentialism <p>Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier have published a new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's famed The Second Sex sixty years after its initial publication. They explain for Books and Ideas how they set out to restore Beauvoir's existentialist, but also very personal approach to the history of the Western notion of “woman”.</p>