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 x
... never lived without servants , did all the housework and sewing for the family . Her pious martyrdom indelibly impressed Simone , who would improve upon Virginia Woolf's famous advice and move to a room of her own in a hotel , with maid ...
... never lived without servants , did all the housework and sewing for the family . Her pious martyrdom indelibly impressed Simone , who would improve upon Virginia Woolf's famous advice and move to a room of her own in a hotel , with maid ...
Page xi
... never marry . But by then Simone de Beauvoir had seen what a woman of almost any quality - highborn or low , pure or impure , contented with her lot or alienated could expect from a man's world . Beauvoir's singular brilliance was ...
... never marry . But by then Simone de Beauvoir had seen what a woman of almost any quality - highborn or low , pure or impure , contented with her lot or alienated could expect from a man's world . Beauvoir's singular brilliance was ...
Page xiv
... never witnessed firsthand , and her friendship with Richard Wright , the author of Native Son , helped to clarify her understanding of sexism , and its relation to the anti - Semitism that she certainly had witnessed firsthand before ...
... never witnessed firsthand , and her friendship with Richard Wright , the author of Native Son , helped to clarify her understanding of sexism , and its relation to the anti - Semitism that she certainly had witnessed firsthand before ...
Page xx
... never surrender ! " ) until she found the editor who was willing to take on the monumental task . That exceptional person is Ellah Allfrey of Jonathan Cape , a patient and superb editor who astutely worked with us step - by - step for ...
... never surrender ! " ) until she found the editor who was willing to take on the monumental task . That exceptional person is Ellah Allfrey of Jonathan Cape , a patient and superb editor who astutely worked with us step - by - step for ...
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... never occur to a man to write a book on the singular situation of males in humanity.2 If I want to define myself , I first have to say , " I am a woman " ; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth . A man never begins by ...
... never occur to a man to write a book on the singular situation of males in humanity.2 If I want to define myself , I first have to say , " I am a woman " ; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth . A man never begins by ...
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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