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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... remains more or less stationary . Some follicles swell up without reaching maturity ; the girl's growth is analogous to the boy's : at the same age she is often bigger and heavier than he . But at puberty the species reasserts its ...
... remains more or less stationary . Some follicles swell up without reaching maturity ; the girl's growth is analogous to the boy's : at the same age she is often bigger and heavier than he . But at puberty the species reasserts its ...
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... remains a subject . The real problem for the woman refusing these evasions is to accomplish herself as transcendence : this means seeing which possibilities are opened to her by what are called virile and feminine attitudes ; when a ...
... remains a subject . The real problem for the woman refusing these evasions is to accomplish herself as transcendence : this means seeing which possibilities are opened to her by what are called virile and feminine attitudes ; when a ...
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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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