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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... B352 2010 305.401 - dc22 2009023164 Vintage ISBN : 978-0-307-27778-7 Book design by Pei Koay www.vintagebooks.com Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Jacques Bost There is a good principle that created.
... B352 2010 305.401 - dc22 2009023164 Vintage ISBN : 978-0-307-27778-7 Book design by Pei Koay www.vintagebooks.com Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Jacques Bost There is a good principle that created.
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Simone De Beauvoir. To Jacques Bost There is a good principle that created order , light , and man and a bad principle that created chaos , darkness , and woman . -PYTHAGORAS Everything that has been written by men about women should be ...
Simone De Beauvoir. To Jacques Bost There is a good principle that created order , light , and man and a bad principle that created chaos , darkness , and woman . -PYTHAGORAS Everything that has been written by men about women should be ...
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... created itself . The familiar line from George Bernard Shaw sums it up : The white American relegates the black to the rank of shoe - shine boy , and then concludes that blacks are only good for shining shoes . The same vicious circle ...
... created itself . The familiar line from George Bernard Shaw sums it up : The white American relegates the black to the rank of shoe - shine boy , and then concludes that blacks are only good for shining shoes . The same vicious circle ...
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... created after Adam , she is obviously a secondary being , some say ; on the contrary , say others , Adam was only a rough draft , and God perfected the human being when he created Eve ; her brain is smaller , but relatively bigger ...
... created after Adam , she is obviously a secondary being , some say ; on the contrary , say others , Adam was only a rough draft , and God perfected the human being when he created Eve ; her brain is smaller , but relatively bigger ...
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... created by the coupling of two unlike halves . This story only tries to explain love : the differentiation of sexes is taken as a given from the start . Aristotle offers no better account : for if cooperation of matter and form is ...
... created by the coupling of two unlike halves . This story only tries to explain love : the differentiation of sexes is taken as a given from the start . Aristotle offers no better account : for if cooperation of matter and form is ...
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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