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 5
... truth . A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex : that he is a man is obvious . The categories masculine and feminine appear as symmetrical in a formal way on town hall records or identification papers ...
... truth . A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex : that he is a man is obvious . The categories masculine and feminine appear as symmetrical in a formal way on town hall records or identification papers ...
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... truth , nature is no more an immutable given than is historical reality . If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential , it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself ...
... truth , nature is no more an immutable given than is historical reality . If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential , it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself ...
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... truth , it covers up a more or less skillfully camouflaged will to selfjustification . " It is much easier to accuse one sex than to excuse the other , " says Montaigne . In certain cases , the process is transparent . It is striking ...
... truth , it covers up a more or less skillfully camouflaged will to selfjustification . " It is much easier to accuse one sex than to excuse the other , " says Montaigne . In certain cases , the process is transparent . It is striking ...
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... toward the species , by which individual and species accomplish themselves in their 3. Hegel , The Philosophy of Nature , Part 3 , Section 369 . own truth could occur without the third element , by BIOLOGICAL DATA 23.
... toward the species , by which individual and species accomplish themselves in their 3. Hegel , The Philosophy of Nature , Part 3 , Section 369 . own truth could occur without the third element , by BIOLOGICAL DATA 23.
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... truth : immortal , an existent would no longer be what we call a man . One of the essential features of man's destiny is that the movement of his temporal life creates behind and ahead of him the infinity of the past and the future ...
... truth : immortal , an existent would no longer be what we call a man . One of the essential features of man's destiny is that the movement of his temporal life creates behind and ahead of him the infinity of the past and the future ...
Contents
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62 | |
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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