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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... body of research in biology and the social sciences supports their argument that some sexual differences ( besides ... body barring my way , a voluptuous body with closed eyes , voluntarily blind , stretched out full , ready to perish ...
... body of research in biology and the social sciences supports their argument that some sexual differences ( besides ... body barring my way , a voluptuous body with closed eyes , voluntarily blind , stretched out full , ready to perish ...
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... body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity , whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle , a prison , burdened by everything that particularizes it . " The female is female by ...
... body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity , whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle , a prison , burdened by everything that particularizes it . " The female is female by ...
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... body has meaning by itself , disregarding the body of the woman , whereas the woman's body seems devoid of meaning without reference to the male . Man thinks himself without woman . Woman does not think herself without man . " And she ...
... body has meaning by itself , disregarding the body of the woman , whereas the woman's body seems devoid of meaning without reference to the male . Man thinks himself without woman . Woman does not think herself without man . " And she ...
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... body that is both a thing of the world and a point of view on this world : but this body need not possess this or that particular structure . In L'être et le néant ( Being and Nothingness ) , Sartre disputes Heidegger's affirmation that ...
... body that is both a thing of the world and a point of view on this world : but this body need not possess this or that particular structure . In L'être et le néant ( Being and Nothingness ) , Sartre disputes Heidegger's affirmation that ...
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... body . Woman's history is much more complex . At the beginning of embryonic life , the supply of ovocytes is definitively formed ; the ovary contains about fifty thousand ova , and each one is enclosed in a follicle , with about four ...
... body . Woman's history is much more complex . At the beginning of embryonic life , the supply of ovocytes is definitively formed ; the ovary contains about fifty thousand ova , and each one is enclosed in a follicle , with about four ...
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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