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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... the active principle while woman is the passive principle because she resides in her non - developed unity . " 4 And even when the 4. Ibid . ovum was recognized as an active principle , men continued BIOLOGICAL DATA 25.
... the active principle while woman is the passive principle because she resides in her non - developed unity . " 4 And even when the 4. Ibid . ovum was recognized as an active principle , men continued BIOLOGICAL DATA 25.
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Simone De Beauvoir. ovum was recognized as an active principle , men continued to pit its inertia against the agility of the sperm . Today , there is a tendency to see the contrary : the discoveries of parthenogenesis have led some ...
Simone De Beauvoir. ovum was recognized as an active principle , men continued to pit its inertia against the agility of the sperm . Today , there is a tendency to see the contrary : the discoveries of parthenogenesis have led some ...
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... ovum result in the formation of polar globules equivalent to the last divisions of the sperm . It is thought today that , depending on the species , the male or female gamete determines the sex : for mammals , the sperm possesses a ...
... ovum result in the formation of polar globules equivalent to the last divisions of the sperm . It is thought today that , depending on the species , the male or female gamete determines the sex : for mammals , the sperm possesses a ...
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... ovum , the sperm are generally produced in considerable quantities , and each ovum has many suitors . Thus , the ovum , active in the nucleus , its essential principle , is superficially passive ; its mass , closed upon itself , compact ...
... ovum , the sperm are generally produced in considerable quantities , and each ovum has many suitors . Thus , the ovum , active in the nucleus , its essential principle , is superficially passive ; its mass , closed upon itself , compact ...
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... ovum is incapable of triggering the change that will bring about a new explosion of life . Without the egg's prescience , the sperm's action would be useless ; but without the latter's initiative , the egg would not accomplish its vital ...
... ovum is incapable of triggering the change that will bring about a new explosion of life . Without the egg's prescience , the sperm's action would be useless ; but without the latter's initiative , the egg would not accomplish its vital ...
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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