The second sex
Simone de Beauvoir (Author), Constance Borde (Translator), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women has had the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a scholarly work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. The Second Sex stands, six decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time. In this new translation to mark the 60th anniversary of publication, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier have produced the first integral translation, reinstating a third of the original work
xxv, 822 pages ; 25 cm
9780224078597, 0224078593
429598256
I. Facts and myths. Destiny : Biological data ; The psychoanalytical point of view ; The point of view of historical materialism
History
Myths : Montherlant or the bread of disgust ; D.H. Lawrence or phallic pride ; Claudel or the handmaiden of the Lord ; Breton or poetry ; Stendhal or romancing the real
II. Lived experience. Formative years : Childhood ; The girl ; Sexual initiation ; The lesbian
Situation : The married woman ; The mother ; Social life ; Prostitutes and hetaeras ; From maturity to old age ; Woman's situation and character
Justifications : The narcissist ; The woman in love ; the mystic
Toward liberation : The independent woman
Translated from the French
Translated from the French