The Second Sex
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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On Becoming a Person of Color
I finish counting and start over, trying, always, to solve the equation of myself.
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The History of The Second Sex
At Flavorwire, Sarah Bakewell shares an excerpt from At the Existentialist Café. In the excerpt, Bakewell looks at Simone de Beauvoir’s writing of The Second Sex—for Bakewell, the most important book to come out of existentialism, a hugely important feminist tome that began with…