The second sex /

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"First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration. Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beauvoir, Simone de
Other Authors: Borde, Constance (Translator), Chevallier, Sheila Malovany (Translator)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : Vintage, 2010.
Subjects:
Feminism. > Society.
Table of Contents:
  • Facts and myths. Destiny. Biological data
  • Psychoanalytical point of view
  • 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
  • Lived experience. Formative years : Childhood
  • Girl
  • Sexual initiation
  • Lesbian
  • Situation. Married woman
  • Mother
  • Social life
  • Prostitutes and hetaeras
  • From maturity to old age
  • Woman's situation and character
  • Justifications. Narcissist
  • Woman in love
  • Mystic
  • Toward liberation. Independent woman.

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