Vol. 75/No. 26      July 18, 2011

Below is the preface by Mary-Alice Waters to the Indonesian edition of Woman’s Evolution. Waters is president of Pathfinder Press and Evelyn Reed’s literary executor.

The publication of this classic work by Evelyn Reed on the origins of women’s oppression in the Indonesian language, the official tongue of the fourth most populous country in the world, is of great significance.

A scientific understanding of how women came to be “the second sex” is irreplaceable if we are to chart the course of struggle necessary to achieve equality and liberate the full creative and productive capacities of women and men alike.

Woman’s Evolution, which has now been published in at least seven languages, including English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Farsi, and Swedish, places this knowledge in our hands, enabling us to fight for that future—in every corner of the world.

With our best wishes,

Mary-Alice Waters
 
 
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