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 25
... existence of vesicles on their surface that Graaf , in 1672 , had erroneously identified as eggs and to which he gave his name . The ovary was still regarded as a homologue of the male gland . That same year , though , " spermatic ...
... existence of vesicles on their surface that Graaf , in 1672 , had erroneously identified as eggs and to which he gave his name . The ovary was still regarded as a homologue of the male gland . That same year , though , " spermatic ...
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Simone De Beauvoir. but it is barely more than an abdomen , and its existence is entirely devoured by the work of a monstrous ovulation . It reaches gigantic dimensions compared with the male ; but its members are often just stumps , its ...
Simone De Beauvoir. but it is barely more than an abdomen , and its existence is entirely devoured by the work of a monstrous ovulation . It reaches gigantic dimensions compared with the male ; but its members are often just stumps , its ...
Page 39
... existence : in terms of desire and coitus , his surpassing toward the species is an integral part of the subjective moment of his transcendence : he is his body . Woman's history is much more complex . At the beginning of embryonic life ...
... existence : in terms of desire and coitus , his surpassing toward the species is an integral part of the subjective moment of his transcendence : he is his body . Woman's history is much more complex . At the beginning of embryonic life ...
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... existence of a natural hierarchy of values for example , that of an evolutionary hierarchy ; it is pointless to wonder if the female body is more infantile than the male , if it is closer to or further from that of the higher primates ...
... existence of a natural hierarchy of values for example , that of an evolutionary hierarchy ; it is pointless to wonder if the female body is more infantile than the male , if it is closer to or further from that of the higher primates ...
Page 46
... existence , biology becomes an abstract science ; when the physiological given ( muscular inferiority ) takes on meaning , this meaning immediately becomes dependent on a whole context ; " weakness " is weakness only in light of the ...
... existence , biology becomes an abstract science ; when the physiological given ( muscular inferiority ) takes on meaning , this meaning immediately becomes dependent on a whole context ; " weakness " is weakness only in light 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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