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The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated and edited by H.M. Parshley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Vintage ClassicsPublication details: London [etc.] Vintage, [2007?]Edition: ReprintDescription: 762 pISBN:
  • 009974421X (pbk.)
  • 9780099744214 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 DEB
Contents:
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.
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.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 305.42 DEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 30/06/2020 39002100468892
Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 305.42 DEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 39002100597344

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of pennetrating imaginative power.THE SECOND SEX stands, five decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time

Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1953.

Originaltitel: Deuxième sexe, Paris : Gallimard, 1949.

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.

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.

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