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 xv
... less euphemism , about the most intimate secrets of her sex . One of those secrets the hardest , perhaps , for Beauvoir to avow - is that a free woman may refuse to be owned without wanting to renounce , or being able to transcend , her ...
... less euphemism , about the most intimate secrets of her sex . One of those secrets the hardest , perhaps , for Beauvoir to avow - is that a free woman may refuse to be owned without wanting to renounce , or being able to transcend , her ...
Page 7
... less clear form , are not so much phenomena to explain as fundamental and immediate givens of social reality . " These phenomena could not be understood if human reality were solely a Mitsein * based on solidarity and friendship . On ...
... less clear form , are not so much phenomena to explain as fundamental and immediate givens of social reality . " These phenomena could not be understood if human reality were solely a Mitsein * based on solidarity and friendship . On ...
Page 11
... less verve , picks up the tradition from Jean de Meung . This hostility seems sometimes founded but is often gratuitous ; in truth , it covers up a more or less skillfully camouflaged will to selfjustification . " It is much easier to ...
... less verve , picks up the tradition from Jean de Meung . This hostility seems sometimes founded but is often gratuitous ; in truth , it covers up a more or less skillfully camouflaged will to selfjustification . " It is much easier to ...
Page 12
... less sincerely , the virtues of the " good black , " the carefree , childlike , merry soul of the resigned black , and the woman who is a " true woman " -frivolous , infantile , irresponsible , the woman subjugated to man . In both ...
... less sincerely , the virtues of the " good black , " the carefree , childlike , merry soul of the resigned black , and the woman who is a " true woman " -frivolous , infantile , irresponsible , the woman subjugated to man . In both ...
Page 15
... less mistrustful of feminists ' arguments : very often their attempt to polemicize robs them of all value . If the " question of women " is so trivial , it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a " quarrel " ; when people ...
... less mistrustful of feminists ' arguments : very often their attempt to polemicize robs them of all value . If the " question of women " is so trivial , it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a " quarrel " ; when people ...
Contents
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62 | |
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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