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 xviii
... mean " women , ” depending on the context . " Woman " in English used alone without an article captures woman as an institution , a concept ... means " girl . " We have included all of Beauvoir's footnotes , and we xviii TRANSLATORS ' NOTE.
... mean " women , ” depending on the context . " Woman " in English used alone without an article captures woman as an institution , a concept ... means " girl . " We have included all of Beauvoir's footnotes , and we xviii TRANSLATORS ' NOTE.
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... means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition . They have no past , no history , no religion of their own ; and unlike the proletariat , they have no solidarity of labor or interests ; they even lack ...
... means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition . They have no past , no history , no religion of their own ; and unlike the proletariat , they have no solidarity of labor or interests ; they even lack ...
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... mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them . Lord - man will materially ... means , because she senses the necessary link connecting her to man without positing its reciprocity , and because ...
... mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them . Lord - man will materially ... means , because she senses the necessary link connecting her to man without positing its reciprocity , and because ...
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... means giving it a substantive value , when in fact it has the sense of the Hegelian dynamic : to be is to have become , to have been made as one manifests oneself . Yes , women in general are today inferior to men ; that is , their ...
... means giving it a substantive value , when in fact it has the sense of the Hegelian dynamic : to be is to have become , to have been made as one manifests oneself . Yes , women in general are today inferior to men ; that is , their ...
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... the feminine world more intimately than men do because our roots are in it ; we grasp more immediately what the fact of being female means for a human being , and we care more about knowing it . I said that there are more INTRODUCTION 15.
... the feminine world more intimately than men do because our roots are in it ; we grasp more immediately what the fact of being female means for a human being , and we care more about knowing it . I said that there are more INTRODUCTION 15.
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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