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 12
... wants to keep them " in their place , " that is , the place chosen for them ; in both cases , they praise , more or less sincerely , the virtues of the " good black , " the carefree , childlike , merry soul of the resigned black , and ...
... wants to keep them " in their place , " that is , the place chosen for them ; in both cases , they praise , more or less sincerely , the virtues of the " good black , " the carefree , childlike , merry soul of the resigned black , and ...
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... wants to find a justification in biology for this feeling . The word " female " evokes a saraband of images : an enormous round egg snatching and castrating the agile sperm ; monstrous and stuffed , the queen termite reigning over the ...
... wants to find a justification in biology for this feeling . The word " female " evokes a saraband of images : an enormous round egg snatching and castrating the agile sperm ; monstrous and stuffed , the queen termite reigning over the ...
Page 49
... wants to limit you to the letter . The doctrine is unimportant , he says : psychoanalysis is a method ; but the success of the method strengthens the doctrinaire in his faith . After all , where would the true features of psychoanalysis ...
... wants to limit you to the letter . The doctrine is unimportant , he says : psychoanalysis is a method ; but the success of the method strengthens the doctrinaire in his faith . After all , where would the true features of psychoanalysis ...
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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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