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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... women ? True , the theory of the eternal feminine still has its followers ; they whisper , " Even in Russia , women are still very much women " ; but other wellinformed people and also at times those same ones lament , " Woman is losing ...
... women ? True , the theory of the eternal feminine still has its followers ; they whisper , " Even in Russia , women are still very much women " ; but other wellinformed people and also at times those same ones lament , " Woman is losing ...
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... women in particular are inclined to think that woman as such no longer exists . If some backward individual still takes herself for a woman , her friends advise her to undergo psychoanalysis to get rid of this obsession . Referring to a ...
... women in particular are inclined to think that woman as such no longer exists . If some backward individual still takes herself for a woman , her friends advise her to undergo psychoanalysis to get rid of this obsession . Referring to a ...
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... women ; they are women by their physiological structure ; as far back as history can be traced , they have always been subordinate to men ; their dependence is not the consequence of an event or a becoming , it did not happen . Alterity ...
... women ; they are women by their physiological structure ; as far back as history can be traced , they have always been subordinate to men ; their dependence is not the consequence of an event or a becoming , it did not happen . Alterity ...
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... women are beginning to share in the making of the world , this world still belongs to men : men have no doubt about this , and women barely doubt it . Refusing to be the Other , refusing complicity with man , would mean renouncing all ...
... women are beginning to share in the making of the world , this world still belongs to men : men have no doubt about this , and women barely doubt it . Refusing to be the Other , refusing complicity with man , would mean renouncing all ...
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... women's subordinate condition was willed in heaven and profitable on earth . Religions forged by men reflect this will for domination : they found ammunition in the legends of Eve and Pandora . They have put philosophy and theology in ...
... women's subordinate condition was willed in heaven and profitable on earth . Religions forged by men reflect this will for domination : they found ammunition in the legends of Eve and Pandora . They have put philosophy and theology in ...
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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