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 xi
... possessed something uniquely necessary to the other . As he put it one afternoon , walking in the Tuileries , " You and I together are as one " ( on ne fait qu'un ) . He categorized their union as an " essential " love that only death ...
... possessed something uniquely necessary to the other . As he put it one afternoon , walking in the Tuileries , " You and I together are as one " ( on ne fait qu'un ) . He categorized their union as an " essential " love that only death ...
Page xv
... possessed . " " As long as the temptations of facility remain , " she wrote , by which she meant the temptations of romantic love , financial security , and a sense of purpose or status derived from a man , all of which Sartre had , at ...
... possessed . " " As long as the temptations of facility remain , " she wrote , by which she meant the temptations of romantic love , financial security , and a sense of purpose or status derived from a man , all of which Sartre had , at ...
Page 38
... possessed by outside forces : alienated . This explains why sexual opposition increases rather than abates when the individuality of organisms asserts itself . The male finds more and more ways to use the forces of which he is master ...
... possessed by outside forces : alienated . This explains why sexual opposition increases rather than abates when the individuality of organisms asserts itself . The male finds more and more ways to use the forces of which he is master ...
Page 39
... possession of her and seeks to affirm itself ; on coming into the world , the woman goes through a kind of first puberty ; ovocytes suddenly grow bigger ; then the ovary reduces by about one - fifth . One could say that the child was ...
... possession of her and seeks to affirm itself ; on coming into the world , the woman goes through a kind of first puberty ; ovocytes suddenly grow bigger ; then the ovary reduces by about one - fifth . One could say that the child was ...
Page 42
... possession of it ; the body loses phosphorus , calcium , and iron , the last of these losses being very hard to overcome later ; the metabolic hyperactivity excites the endocrine system ; the negative nervous system is in a heightened ...
... possession of it ; the body loses phosphorus , calcium , and iron , the last of these losses being very hard to overcome later ; the metabolic hyperactivity excites the endocrine system ; the negative nervous system is in a heightened ...
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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