The Second Sex
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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life. The Barnes & Noble Review Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the most important feminist book ever written, and yet English readers have never known precisely what it says. The 1953 English translation of the book by H. M. Parshley, which cemented its international reputation, was an abridged version, with cuts made at the insistence of its American publisher, Alfred Knopf. As feminists often note derisively, Parshley was a zoologist who lacked grounding in the existentialist philosophy that gave de Beauvoir much of her vocabulary. But until now, his translation has been the standard one, and no complete English version of The Second Sex has existed. So the arrival of Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier's new, unedited edition, which comes out just over sixty years after the book's first appearance in France, is an important literary event.
Introduction to the Vintage EditionBook One: Facts and MythsPart One: Destiny1. The Data of Biology2. The Psychoanalytic Point of View3. The Point of View of Historical MaterialismPart Two: History4. The Nomads5. Early Tillers of the Soil6. Patriarchal Times and Classical Antiquity7. Through the Middle Ages to 18th Century France8. Since the French Revolution: the Job and the VotePart Three: Myths9. Dreams, Fears, Idols10. The Myth of Woman in Five Authors a. Montherlant or the Bread of Disgust b. D.H. Lawrence or Phallic Pride c. Claudel and the Handmaid of the Lord d. Breton or Poetry e. Stendhal or the Romantic of Reality f. Summary11. Myth and RealityBook Two: Woman's Life TodayPart Four: The Formative Years12. Childhood13. The Young Girl14. Sexual Initiation15. The LesbianPart Five: Situation16. The Married Woman17. The Mother18. Social Life19. Prostitutes and Hetairas20. From Maturity to Old Age21. Woman's Situation and CharacterPart Six: Justifications22. The Narcissist23. The Woman in Love24. The Mystic Part Seven: Toward Liberation25. The Independent WomanConclusion
