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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... mysterious and endangered reality known as femininity . Is femininity secreted by the ovaries ? Is it enshrined in a Platonic heaven ? Is a frilly petticoat enough to bring it down to earth ? Although some women zealously strive to ...
... mysterious and endangered reality known as femininity . Is femininity secreted by the ovaries ? Is it enshrined in a Platonic heaven ? Is a frilly petticoat enough to bring it down to earth ? Although some women zealously strive to ...
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... mystery , he assumes that she is mystery for man . So this apparently objective description is in fact an affirmation of masculine privilege . society in depth , Lévi - Strauss could conclude : 6 FACTS AND MYTHS.
... mystery , he assumes that she is mystery for man . So this apparently objective description is in fact an affirmation of masculine privilege . society in depth , Lévi - Strauss could conclude : 6 FACTS AND MYTHS.
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... mysterious , sets the whole body in motion as it is accompanied by hormonal secretions that act on the thyroid and pituitary glands , the central and peripheral nervous systems , and thus on all the organs . Almost all women more than ...
... mysterious , sets the whole body in motion as it is accompanied by hormonal secretions that act on the thyroid and pituitary glands , the central and peripheral nervous systems , and thus on all the organs . Almost all women more than ...
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... mystery . The superego interiorizes orders and prohibitions emanating from an arbitrary tyranny ; instinctive tendencies exist , but we do not know why ; these two realities are heterogeneous because morality is posited as foreign to ...
... mystery . The superego interiorizes orders and prohibitions emanating from an arbitrary tyranny ; instinctive tendencies exist , but we do not know why ; these two realities are heterogeneous because morality is posited as foreign to ...
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... mysterious unconscious : it is the apprehension of a signification through an analogue of the signifying object ; because of the identity of the existential situation cutting across all existents and the identity of the facticity they ...
... mysterious unconscious : it is the apprehension of a signification through an analogue of the signifying object ; because of the identity of the existential situation cutting across all existents and the identity of the facticity they ...
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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