''Le Premier Sexe'' (''The First Sex'') is a book from writer, journalist and essayist

Éric Zemmour Éric Justin Léon Zemmour (; born 31 August 1958) is a French History of far-right movements in France, far-right politician, essayist, writer and political journalist and pundit. He was an editor and panelist on ''Face à l'Info'', a daily show ...

published in 2006.

Overview

In this book, Zemmour analyses what he considers to be the feminisation of society, or rather its devirilisation. Based on an array of examples from various fields, he denounces the movement from a patriarchal and traditional society to a modern and feminised one. Zemmour also examines economic and social consequences of this movement, before building upon this analysis to explain what founded the newly immigrated's behaviour. Its title is a reference to the book ''

The Second Sex ''The Second Sex'' () is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history. Beauvoir researched and wrote th ...

'' (''Le Deuxième Sexe'') by

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she ...

Publications

* 2006: ''Le Premier Sexe'', Denoël, * 2009: ''Le Premier Sexe'', J'ai lu,

References

2006 non-fiction books Masculism Pamphlets Books by Éric Zemmour Anti-immigration politics in France Far-right politics in France {{france-poli-book-stub