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 6
... male . Man thinks himself without woman . Woman does not think herself without man . " And she is nothing other than what man decides ; she is thus called " the sex , " meaning that the male sees her essentially as a sexed being ; for ...
... male . Man thinks himself without woman . Woman does not think herself without man . " And she is nothing other than what man decides ; she is thus called " the sex , " meaning that the male sees her essentially as a sexed being ; for ...
Page 14
... male child and then the young man sees the woman as having the same social dignity as the adult male ; afterward , he experiences in desire and love the resistance and independence of the desired and loved woman ; married , he respects ...
... male child and then the young man sees the woman as having the same social dignity as the adult male ; afterward , he experiences in desire and love the resistance and independence of the desired and loved woman ; married , he respects ...
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... male ! " The term " female " is pejorative not because it roots woman in nature but because it confines her in her sex , and if this sex , even in an innocent animal , seems despicable and an enemy to man , it is obviously because of ...
... male ! " The term " female " is pejorative not because it roots woman in nature but because it confines her in her sex , and if this sex , even in an innocent animal , seems despicable and an enemy to man , it is obviously because of ...
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... male intervention . The male plays no role or only a secondary one : unfertilized honeybee eggs subdivide and produce drones ; in the case of aphids , males are absent for a number of generations , and the unfertilized eggs produce ...
... male intervention . The male plays no role or only a secondary one : unfertilized honeybee eggs subdivide and produce drones ; in the case of aphids , males are absent for a number of generations , and the unfertilized eggs produce ...
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... male principle is strength , activity , movement , and life . Hippocrates ' doctrine also recognized two types of seeds , a weak or female one , and a strong one , which was male . Artistotelian theory was perpetuated throughout the ...
... male principle is strength , activity , movement , and life . Hippocrates ' doctrine also recognized two types of seeds , a weak or female one , and a strong one , which was male . Artistotelian theory was perpetuated throughout the ...
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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