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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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky allowed us the special privilege of using parts of their magnificent translation of War and Peace before the edition appeared in 2008; their views on translation were an inspiration to us.
She wanted to be included in the men's category; but to get this privilege, she used her husband's influence. Women who assert they are men still claim masculine consideration and respect. I also remember a young Trotskyite standing on ...
... disregarding the reciprocity of the subject and the object. When he writes that woman is mystery, he assumes that she is mystery for man. So this apparently objective description is in fact an affirmation of masculine privilege. 5.
It is often numerical inequality that confers this privilege: the majority imposes its law on or persecutes the minority. But women are not a minority like American blacks, or like Jews: there are as many women as men on the earth.
But males could not have enjoyed this privilege so fully had they not consideredit as founded in the absolute and in eternity: they sought to make the fact of their supremacy a right. “Those who made and compiled the laws, being men, ...
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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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