Monday, September 13, 7-9 pm
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

This event will take place at the Event Oval, The Diana Center, Barnard College
Widely regarded as the "Bible of feminism," Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) is a complex interdisciplinary analysis of the Western notion of "woman" and the power of sexuality. Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, The Second Sex (2010) is as relevant today as it was sixty years ago. In this panel discussion, translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier will describe their efforts to render The Second Sex in a manner faithful to its context in existentialist philosophy, their struggle to publish the work, and its reception by the critics.
This event is co-sponsored with the Barnard Center for Translation Studies, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Columbia Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Critical Analysis of Social Difference, and the Columbia University Law School, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law. Funding is provided by the Mellon Foundation.