The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; with an introduction by Judith Thurman.
2010
305.401 B386s 2010
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Title
The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; with an introduction by Judith Thurman.
Uniform Title
Deuxième sexe. English
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780307265562 (hc)
0307265560 (hc)
0307265560 (hc)
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 800 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
305.401 B386s 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)405105574
(OCoLC)405105574
(OCoLC)405105574
Summary
An unabridged version of Beauvoir's feminist exploration of the psychological, sexual and social roles of women and their historical and contemporary situation in Western culture at the middle of the twentieth century.
Note
"This translation originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape ... in 2009"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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