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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. In the first volume, Beauvoir tackles the alerity that Man imposed on women, from a historical and literary viewpoint. She goes over the male assumptions of women's inferiority or otherness in the fields of biology and psychoanalysis, and she has a few comments to say on historical materialism, specifically responding to what Engels' The Origin of the Family. It's an interesting read until now, and I'm wondering how this work relates to Beauvoir and Sartre's polygamous relationship.
I'm looking forward to read some of al-Kawakibi's works next.