The Second SexThe essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue |
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... accepted by a general readership . Our goal in this translation has been to conform to the same ideal in English : to say what Simone de Beauvoir said as close to the way she said it , in a text both readable and challenging ...
... accepted by a general readership . Our goal in this translation has been to conform to the same ideal in English : to say what Simone de Beauvoir said as close to the way she said it , in a text both readable and challenging ...
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... way . If the female function is not enough to define woman , and if we also reject the explanation of the " eternal feminine , " but if we accept , event temporarily , that there are women on the earth , 4 FACTS AND MYTHS.
... way . If the female function is not enough to define woman , and if we also reject the explanation of the " eternal feminine , " but if we accept , event temporarily , that there are women on the earth , 4 FACTS AND MYTHS.
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... accepted each other's 4. See Claude Lévi - Strauss , Les structures élémentaires de la parenté ( The Elementary Structures of Kinship ) . I thank Claude Lévi - Strauss for sharing the proofs of his thesis , which I drew on heavily ...
... accepted each other's 4. See Claude Lévi - Strauss , Les structures élémentaires de la parenté ( The Elementary Structures of Kinship ) . I thank Claude Lévi - Strauss for sharing the proofs of his thesis , which I drew on heavily ...
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... accepted , and discussion continued until the nineteenth century . The invention of the microscope led to the study of the animal egg ; in 1827 , Baer identified the mammal's egg : an element contained inside Graaf ' s follicle . Soon ...
... accepted , and discussion continued until the nineteenth century . The invention of the microscope led to the study of the animal egg ; in 1827 , Baer identified the mammal's egg : an element contained inside Graaf ' s follicle . Soon ...
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... accepted today that in most species sex determination depends on the genotypical constitution of the egg . The virgin egg of the honeybee reproducing itself by parthenogenesis yields males exclusively ; that of fruit flies in the exact ...
... accepted today that in most species sex determination depends on the genotypical constitution of the egg . The virgin egg of the honeybee reproducing itself by parthenogenesis yields males exclusively ; that of fruit flies in the exact ...
Contents
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Chapter 1 | 71 |
Chapter 3 | 90 |
Chapter 4 | 104 |
Chapter 5 | 126 |
Introduction | 279 |
Chapter 5 | 439 |
Chapter 8 | 599 |
From Maturity to Old Age | 619 |
Chapter to Womans Situation and Character | 638 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
Chapter 1 | 159 |
Chapter 2 | 214 |
Claudel or the Handmaiden of the Lord | 237 |
Chapter 3 | 266 |
The Independent Woman | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
Selected Sources | 767 |
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