Five best literary counterblasts against misogyny

Belinda Jack is Tutorial Fellow in French, Christ Church, University of Oxford. She is the author of George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large and Beatrice's Spell.

Her latest book is The Woman Reader.

One of Jack's five best literary counterblasts against misogyny, as told to the Wall Street Journal:The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

'The Second Sex' opens with an epigraph from the