Books like Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir reads as analytical, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Simians, cyborgs, and women

Donna Jeanne Haraway · 1991

Both explore feminism & gender

72% genome match

The invention of women

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí · 1997

Both explore gender & feminism

69% genome match

Essays

Virginia Woolf · 1947

Both explore feminism & society

71% genome match

La politique du mâle

Kate Millett · 1968

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

68% genome match

Masculinities

R. W. Connell · 1995

Both explore patriarchy

68% genome match

Woman and Nature

Susan Griffin · 1978

Both explore patriarchy & gender

69% genome match

Between Men

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 1985

Both explore patriarchy

68% genome match

A literature of their own

Elaine Showalter · 1975

Both explore feminism

66% genome match

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

Simone de Beauvoir · 1900

Both explore feminism & existentialism

66% genome match

Beyond God the Father

Mary Daly · 1974

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

76% genome match

The obstacle race

Germaine Greer · 1979

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

68% genome match

Bodies that matter

Judith Butler · 1993

Both explore gender & feminism

69% genome match