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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... we will see the difficulties women are up against just when , trying to escape the sphere they have been assigned until now , they seek to be part of the human Mitsein . II . This will be the subject of a second volume . INTRODUCTION 17.
... we will see the difficulties women are up against just when , trying to escape the sphere they have been assigned until now , they seek to be part of the human Mitsein . II . This will be the subject of a second volume . INTRODUCTION 17.
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... seeks to recover its other half : the gods decided later that new human beings would be created by the coupling of two unlike halves . This story only tries to explain love : the differentiation of sexes is taken as a given from the ...
... seeks to recover its other half : the gods decided later that new human beings would be created by the coupling of two unlike halves . This story only tries to explain love : the differentiation of sexes is taken as a given from the ...
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... seeks it out ; the sperm is always a naked cell , while the ovum is , according to the species , protected or not by a membrane ; but in any case , the sperm bumps into the ovum when it comes into contact with it , makes it waver , and ...
... seeks it out ; the sperm is always a naked cell , while the ovum is , according to the species , protected or not by a membrane ; but in any case , the sperm bumps into the ovum when it comes into contact with it , makes it waver , and ...
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... seeks her out , who attacks , palpates , seizes her and imposes coitus on her ; sometimes he has to fight off other males . Accordingly , the organs of locomotion , touch , and prehension are also often more developed ; many female ...
... seeks her out , who attacks , palpates , seizes her and imposes coitus on her ; sometimes he has to fight off other males . Accordingly , the organs of locomotion , touch , and prehension are also often more developed ; many female ...
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... seek out the male - she nevertheless experiences the sexual adventure in its immediacy as an interior story and not in relation to the world and to others . But the fundamental difference between male and female mammals is that in the ...
... seek out the male - she nevertheless experiences the sexual adventure in its immediacy as an interior story and not in relation to the world and to others . But the fundamental difference between male and female mammals is that in the ...
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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