"Like man, woman is a human being."

When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949--groundbreaking,

risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern--it provoked both outrage and

inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir's masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

“女人和男人一样，都是人”。

1949年，《第二性》于巴黎首次出版，它的突破性、冒险、出色的写作和引人注目的现代性，既引起了愤怒，也激发了灵感。本书包含了波伏娃（Beauvoir）这部杰作的三个关键章节，这些章节阐明了女性的状况，并确定了促进性别平等的实际社会改革。它抓住了这篇精神宣言的精髓，点亮了一代女性的头脑，并继续对今天的女性主义者产生深远影响。