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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Beauvoir not only marshaled a vast arsenal of fact and theory; she galvanized a critical mass of consciousness—a collective identity—that was indispensable to the women's movement. Her insights have breached the solitude of countless ...
... became “her true nature in itself.” Thus, Parshley's “being-in-itself” (en-soi, lacking human consciousness) is a reversal of Simone de Beauvoir's meaning. Margaret Simons and Toril Moi have TRANslators' Note | xix.
The category of Otherisas original as consciousness itself. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies; this division did not always fall into the category of the ...
On the contrary, they become clear if, following Hegel, a fundamental hostility to any other consciousness is found in consciousness itself; the subject posits itself only in opposition; it asserts itself as the essential and sets up ...
... a world where men force her to assume herself as Other: an attempt is made to freeze her as an object and doom her to immanence, since her transcendence will be forever transcended by another essential and sovereign consciousness.
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User Review - Jthierer - LibraryThingThis book consists of three parts all jumbled-up together so that some of the still relevant gets missed in the "WTF did I just read." One part is a solid historical look at what the life of women ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingA dense book in which de Beauvoir attempts to define a feminist view of the world, and to explain the differentiation of that view from the masculine. There is a lot of close reasoning, but a serious ... Read full review
Contents
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PART Two HISTORY | 71 |
PART Fou | 87 |
Chapter | 266 |
Childhood | 283 |
SITUATION | 418 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
TOWARD LIBERATION | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
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| Title | The Second Sex Picture Puzzles Series |
| Author | Simone De Beauvoir |
| Translated by | Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 |
| ISBN | 030781453X, 9780307814531 |
| Length | 832 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Gender Studies |
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