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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... transcendence , plays itself out in both sexes ; both are eaten away by time , stalked by death , they have the same essential need of the other ; and they can take the same glory from their freedom ; if they knew how to savor it , they ...
... transcendence , plays itself out in both sexes ; both are eaten away by time , stalked by death , they have the same essential need of the other ; and they can take the same glory from their freedom ; if they knew how to savor it , they ...
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... transcendence , robbed of all worth . But it is an easy path : the anguish and stress of authentically assumed existence are thus avoided . The man who sets the woman up as an Other will thus find in her a deep complicity . Hence woman ...
... transcendence , robbed of all worth . But it is an easy path : the anguish and stress of authentically assumed existence are thus avoided . The man who sets the woman up as an Other will thus find in her a deep complicity . Hence woman ...
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... transcendence concretely , through projects ; it accomplishes its freedom only by perpetual surpassing toward other freedoms ; there is no other justification for present existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future ...
... transcendence concretely , through projects ; it accomplishes its freedom only by perpetual surpassing toward other freedoms ; there is no other justification for present existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future ...
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... transcendence will be forever transcended by another essential and sovereign consciousness . Woman's drama lies in this conflict between the fundamental claim of every subject , which always posits itself as essential , and the demands ...
... transcendence will be forever transcended by another essential and sovereign consciousness . Woman's drama lies in this conflict between the fundamental claim of every subject , which always posits itself as essential , and the demands ...
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... transcendence , and that a project is in the making in every function : these descriptions do not suggest more than this . In most species , male and female organisms cooperate for reproduction . They are basically defined by the ...
... transcendence , and that a project is in the making in every function : these descriptions do not suggest more than this . In most species , male and female organisms cooperate for reproduction . They are basically defined by 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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