The second sex

Author(s)

• Beauvoir, Simone de
• Borde, Constance
• Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila

Bibliographic Information

The second sex

Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ; with an introduction by Judith Thurman

Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

1st American ed

• hc

Other Title

Deuxième sexe

Uniform Title

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908- -- Deuxième sexe

Note

"This translation originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape ... in 2009"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB06897272
• ISBN:
  • 9780307265562
• LCCN: 2009023164
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 800 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1208
  • DC22 : 305.401
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00326990