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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Page xi
... death could sunder , although in time , he said , they would naturally both have " contingent " loves - freely enjoyed and fraternally confessed in a spirit of " authenticity . " ( She often recruited , and shared , his girls , some of ...
... death could sunder , although in time , he said , they would naturally both have " contingent " loves - freely enjoyed and fraternally confessed in a spirit of " authenticity . " ( She often recruited , and shared , his girls , some of ...
Page xii
... death by her companion and adopted daughter , Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir , suggests that Beauvoir had arrived at the notion of a fundamental conflict between self and Other before she met Sartre , partly through her reading of Henri ...
... death by her companion and adopted daughter , Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir , suggests that Beauvoir had arrived at the notion of a fundamental conflict between self and Other before she met Sartre , partly through her reading of Henri ...
Page xiii
... death , they have the same essential need of the other ; and they can take the same glory from their freedom ; if they knew how to savor it , they would no longer be tempted to contend for false privileges ; and fraternity could then be ...
... death , they have the same essential need of the other ; and they can take the same glory from their freedom ; if they knew how to savor it , they would no longer be tempted to contend for false privileges ; and fraternity could then be ...
Page 24
... death because of its finitude ; he establishes that a finite and temporally limitless existence could be conceivable ; nevertheless , if human life were not inhabited by death , the relationship of human beings to the world and to ...
... death because of its finitude ; he establishes that a finite and temporally limitless existence could be conceivable ; nevertheless , if human life were not inhabited by death , the relationship of human beings to the world and to ...
Page 32
... death ; but the fertilized female has a sad fate : she digs herself into the earth alone and often dies from exhaustion while laying the first eggs ; if she manages to reconstitute a colony , she is imprisoned for twelve years laying ...
... death ; but the fertilized female has a sad fate : she digs herself into the earth alone and often dies from exhaustion while laying the first eggs ; if she manages to reconstitute a colony , she is imprisoned for twelve years laying ...
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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