{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/98bf002b-6800-47ef-9baf-6f374a17acaf?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"De Beauvoir on the Other","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7cc7.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Simone de Beauvoir’s <em>The Second Sex</em> (1949) is one of the founding texts of modern feminism and one of the most important books of the twentieth century.&nbsp;It covers everything from ancient myth to modern psychoanalysis to ask what the relations between men and women have in common with other kinds of oppression, from slavery to colonialism.&nbsp;It also offers some radical suggestions for how both women and men can be liberated from their condition.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1038399/the-second-sex/9780099595731.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recommended version to buy</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Going Deeper: </strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4444/the-art-of-fiction-no-35-simone-de-beauvoir\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Madeline Gobeil, ‘Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35,’&nbsp;<em>The Paris Review&nbsp;</em>(1965)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/at-the-existentialist-cafe/sarah-bakewell/9780099554882\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Bakewell,&nbsp;<em>At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails</em>&nbsp;(2016)&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/becoming-beauvoir/dr-kate-kirkpatrick/9781350168435\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Kirkpatrick,&nbsp;<em>Becoming Beauvoir</em>&nbsp;(2019)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j5ncn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;[Audio]: Simone de Beauvoir,&nbsp;<em>In Our Time</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}