The Second Sex |
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User Review - Jthierer - LibraryThingThis book consists of three parts all jumbled-up together so that some of the still relevant gets missed in the "WTF did I just read." One part is a solid historical look at what the life of women ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingA dense book in which de Beauvoir attempts to define a feminist view of the world, and to explain the differentiation of that view from the masculine. There is a lot of close reasoning, but a serious ... Read full review
Contents
CHAPTER Part I DESTINY | 3 |
The Psychoanalytic Point of View | 38 |
The Point of View of Historical Materialism | 53 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Second Sex Volume 3192 of Bantam books |
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 732 pages |
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