The Spanish-language translation of The Second Sex (printed in Argentina) was banned in Francoist Spain in 1955. Spanish feminists smuggled in copies of the book and circulated it in secret. A full Castilian Spanish translation of The Second Sex was published in 1998.[102]
The Catholic Church's Vatican-based leadership condemned The Second Sex and added the book in its list of prohibited books, known as Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The book remained banned until the policy of prohibition itself was abolished in 1966.
