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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... birth control would be denied to French women until 1967 , and legal abortion , until 1975. Not until the late 1960s was there an elected female head of state anywhere in the world . Girls of my generation searching for examples of ...
... birth control would be denied to French women until 1967 , and legal abortion , until 1975. Not until the late 1960s was there an elected female head of state anywhere in the world . Girls of my generation searching for examples of ...
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... birth , or weaning ? It is noteworthy that the more the female becomes a separate individual , the more imperiously the living continuity is affirmed beyond any separation . The fish or the bird that expels the virgin ovum or the ...
... birth , or weaning ? It is noteworthy that the more the female becomes a separate individual , the more imperiously the living continuity is affirmed beyond any separation . The fish or the bird that expels the virgin ovum or the ...
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... birth for cows and mares is far more painful and dangerous than for female mice and rabbits . Woman , the most individualized of females , is also the most fragile , the one who experiences her destiny the most dramatically and who ...
... birth for cows and mares is far more painful and dangerous than for female mice and rabbits . Woman , the most individualized of females , is also the most fragile , the one who experiences her destiny the most dramatically and who ...
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... birth to puberty , he grows more or less regularly ; at around fifteen or sixteen years old , spermatogenesis begins and continues until old age ; hormone production occurs at the same time and marks the male constitution of the soma ...
... birth to puberty , he grows more or less regularly ; at around fifteen or sixteen years old , spermatogenesis begins and continues until old age ; hormone production occurs at the same time and marks the male constitution of the soma ...
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... birth can cause her a chronic illness . Breastfeeding is also an exhausting servitude ; a set of factors the main one undoubtedly being the appearance of a hormone , progesterone - brings milk secretion into the mammary glands ; the ...
... birth can cause her a chronic illness . Breastfeeding is also an exhausting servitude ; a set of factors the main one undoubtedly being the appearance of a hormone , progesterone - brings milk secretion into the mammary glands ; the ...
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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