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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... thing today as femininity , it is because there never was . Does the word " woman , " then , have no content ? It is what advocates of Enlightenment philosophy , rationalism , or nominalism vigorously assert : women are , among human ...
... thing today as femininity , it is because there never was . Does the word " woman , " then , have no content ? It is what advocates of Enlightenment philosophy , rationalism , or nominalism vigorously assert : women are , among human ...
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... thing because you're a woman . " But I know my only defense is to answer , " I think it because it is true , " thereby eliminating my subjectivity ; it was out of the question to answer , " And you think the contrary because you are a ...
... thing because you're a woman . " But I know my only defense is to answer , " I think it because it is true , " thereby eliminating my subjectivity ; it was out of the question to answer , " And you think the contrary because you are a ...
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... things are beginning to change ? Is this change a good thing ? Will it bring about an equal sharing of the world between men and women or not ? These questions are far from new ; they have already had many answers ; but the very fact ...
... things are beginning to change ? Is this change a good thing ? Will it bring about an equal sharing of the world between men and women or not ? These questions are far from new ; they have already had many answers ; but the very fact ...
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... thing of the world and a point of view on this world : but this body need not possess this or that particular structure . In L'être et le néant ( Being and Nothingness ) , Sartre disputes Heidegger's affirmation that human reality is ...
... thing of the world and a point of view on this world : but this body need not possess this or that particular structure . In L'être et le néant ( Being and Nothingness ) , Sartre disputes Heidegger's affirmation that human reality is ...
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... thing ; it is the prey of a stubborn and foreign life that makes and unmakes a crib in her every month ; every month a child is prepared to be born and is aborted in the flow of the crimson tide ; woman is her body as man is his , but ...
... thing ; it is the prey of a stubborn and foreign life that makes and unmakes a crib in her every month ; every month a child is prepared to be born and is aborted in the flow of the crimson tide ; woman is her body as man is his , but ...
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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