Beauvoir Simone de

The second sex - London Vintage Books 2009 - xxv,822 p

Volume I FACTS AND MYTHS

INTRODUCTION
Part I- Destiny
Ch 1- Biological Data
Ch 2- The Psychoanalytical Point of View
Ch 3- The Point of View of Historical Materialism

PART II- History
Ch 1-5

PART III- Myths
Ch 1-3

Volume II- LIVED EXPERIENCE
Introduction
PART I- Situation
Ch 1 Childhood
Ch 2 The Girl
Ch 3 Sexual Initiation
Ch 4 The Lesbian

PART- II Situation
Ch 5 The Married Woman
Ch 6 The Mother
Ch 7 Social Life
Ch 8 Prostitutes and Hetaeras
Ch 9 From Maturity to Old Age
Ch 10 Woman's Situation and Character

PART III- Justifications
Ch 11 The Narcissist
Ch 12 The Woman in Love
Ch 13 The Mystic

PART IV- Towards Liberation
Ch 14- The Independent Woman



'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian

Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.

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