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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... fact is that every concrete human being is always uniquely situated . To reject the notions of the eternal feminine ... FACTS AND MYTHS.
... fact is that every concrete human being is always uniquely situated . To reject the notions of the eternal feminine ... FACTS AND MYTHS.
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... fact , just as for the ancients there was an absolute vertical that defined the oblique , there is an absolute human type that is masculine . Woman has ovaries and a uterus ; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her ...
... fact , just as for the ancients there was an absolute vertical that defined the oblique , there is an absolute human type that is masculine . Woman has ovaries and a uterus ; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her ...
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... fact an affirmation of masculine privilege . society in depth , Lévi - Strauss could conclude : 6 FACTS AND MYTHS.
... fact an affirmation of masculine privilege . society in depth , Lévi - Strauss could conclude : 6 FACTS AND MYTHS.
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... facts with dates . In these cases , for the oppressed there was a before : they share a past , a tradition ... fact . A situation created over time can come undone at another time blacks in Haiti for one are a good example ; on ...
... facts with dates . In these cases , for the oppressed there was a before : they share a past , a tradition ... fact . A situation created over time can come undone at another time blacks in Haiti for one are a good example ; on ...
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... fact that woman is Other challenges all the justifications that men have ever given : these were only too clearly ... FACTS AND MYTHS.
... fact that woman is Other challenges all the justifications that men have ever given : these were only too clearly ... FACTS AND MYTHS.
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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