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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... where subjective pleasure is sought, to a hetero-erotic attitude that ... The Plumed Serpent, Don Cipriano sees to it that his mistress never reaches orgasm: she must vibrate along with the man, and not find individualized pleasure.
where subjective pleasure is sought, to a hetero-erotic attitude that will link pleasure to an object, usually a woman; this passage will occur at puberty through a narcissistic phase: but the penis will remain, as in infancy, ...
... apart from very rare exceptions, it cannot be stated that the father is a source of genital excitation for his daughter; one of the great problems of female eroticism is that clitoral pleasure is localized: it is only in puberty, ...
... that is, by seeking pleasure, Adler sees man as aiming at certain goals; he replaces drives with motives, finality, and plans; he raises intelligence to such heights that for him sexuality often has only symbolic value.
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User Review - Jthierer - LibraryThingThis book consists of three parts all jumbled-up together so that some of the still relevant gets missed in the "WTF did I just read." One part is a solid historical look at what the life of women ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingA dense book in which de Beauvoir attempts to define a feminist view of the world, and to explain the differentiation of that view from the masculine. There is a lot of close reasoning, but a serious ... Read full review
Contents
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PART Two HISTORY | 71 |
PART Fou | 87 |
Chapter | 266 |
Childhood | 283 |
SITUATION | 418 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
TOWARD LIBERATION | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
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| Title | The Second Sex Picture Puzzles Series |
| Author | Simone De Beauvoir |
| Translated by | Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 |
| ISBN | 030781453X, 9780307814531 |
| Length | 832 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Gender Studies |
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