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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... some primitive societies based on matrilineal filiation , that the father has no part in the child's conception : ancestral larvae were supposed to infiltrate the womb in the form of living germs . With the 24 FACTS AND MYTHS.
... some primitive societies based on matrilineal filiation , that the father has no part in the child's conception : ancestral larvae were supposed to infiltrate the womb in the form of living germs . With the 24 FACTS AND MYTHS.
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Simone De Beauvoir. womb in the form of living germs . With the advent of patriarchy , the male resolutely claimed his posterity ; the mother had to be granted a role in procreation even though she merely carried and fattened the living ...
Simone De Beauvoir. womb in the form of living germs . With the advent of patriarchy , the male resolutely claimed his posterity ; the mother had to be granted a role in procreation even though she merely carried and fattened the living ...
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... living spark is not enclosed within either of the two gametes . It springs forth from their meeting ; the nucleus of the ovum is a vital principle perfectly symmetrical to the sperm's . The second bias contradicts the first , which does ...
... living spark is not enclosed within either of the two gametes . It springs forth from their meeting ; the nucleus of the ovum is a vital principle perfectly symmetrical to the sperm's . The second bias contradicts the first , which does ...
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... living being in which both of them lose and surpass themselves . But in the secondary and superficial phenomena that condition fertilization , it is through the male element that the change in situation occurs for the new eclosion of ...
... living being in which both of them lose and surpass themselves . But in the secondary and superficial phenomena that condition fertilization , it is through the male element that the change in situation occurs for the new eclosion of ...
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... living organism on which she feeds as a parasite or to a mineral substratum ; she is consumed by producing eggs the minuscule male fertilizes . As life takes on more complex forms , individual autonomy develops with the loosening of the ...
... living organism on which she feeds as a parasite or to a mineral substratum ; she is consumed by producing eggs the minuscule male fertilizes . As life takes on more complex forms , individual autonomy develops with the loosening of 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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