The Second Sex examines gender as a social construct in society, especially how the position of women determines their oppression through setting woman as "other" in relation to man and masculine institutions. The book represents a classic manifesto of the liberated woman, its subversiveness has changed how we think of women.

This book explores wholeness of a woman's life. The first part is about facts and myths, exploring the woman through the point of view of biology, psychoanalysis and historical materialism. The second part examines the lived experience of women in childhood and their sexual initiation, marriage, woman as a mother, their social life to old age. The book ends with project toward liberation and emergence of the independent woman.

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