The Index of Prohibited Books is a list of publications forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church. It includes about 4,000 texts. Until 1966, reading anything from that list posed the risk of being excommunicated.
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In this episode we talk about the book The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. The official reason for it's censorship was the description of the functions of the female body and lesbian sex. However, the real reason was different.
"The Second Sex" is an 800-page study of how men subjugated women, limiting not only their political and financial rights, but also their freedom to decide what to do with themselves and their bodies. Most scandalous of all was that Beauvoir, in her book, accused Christianity of supporting the oppression of women.
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00:00 Index of Prohibited Books
00:56 Simone de Beauvoir
01:49 Reasons for the ban of the The Second Sex
03:45 Scandalous reaction to the book
04:35 The Second Sex in the Soviet Union
06:01 Feminist Movement