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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... consciousness a collective identity that was indispensable to the women's movement . Her insights have breached the solitude of countless readers around the world who thought that the fears , transgressions , fantasies , and desires ...
... consciousness a collective identity that was indispensable to the women's movement . Her insights have breached the solitude of countless readers around the world who thought that the fears , transgressions , fantasies , and desires ...
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... consciousness ) , 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 TRANSLATORS ...
... consciousness ) , 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 TRANSLATORS ...
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... consciousness itself . The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies , in the most ... consciousness . " I suppose Mr. Levinas is not forgetting that woman also is consciousness for herself . But it is ...
... consciousness itself . The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies , in the most ... consciousness . " I suppose Mr. Levinas is not forgetting that woman also is consciousness for herself . But it is ...
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... consciousness is found in consciousness itself ; the subject posits itself only in opposition ; it asserts itself as the essential and sets up the other as inessential , as the object . But the other consciousness has an opposing ...
... consciousness is found in consciousness itself ; the subject posits itself only in opposition ; it asserts itself as the essential and sets up the other as inessential , as the object . But the other consciousness has an opposing ...
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... consciousness . Woman's drama lies in this conflict between the fundamental claim of every subject , which always posits itself as essential , and the demands of a situation that constitutes her as inessential . How , in the feminine ...
... consciousness . Woman's drama lies in this conflict between the fundamental claim of every subject , which always posits itself as essential , and the demands of a situation that constitutes her as inessential . How , in the feminine ...
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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