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Original Title:	Le deuxième sexe: I. Les faits et les mythes, II. L'expérience vécue
ISBN:	0679724516 (ISBN13: 9780679724513)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Le deuxième sexe #1-2

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Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness.  This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was back then, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

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Title	:	The Second Sex (Le deuxième sexe #1-2)
Author	:	Simone de Beauvoir
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 746 pages
Published	:	December 17th 1989 by Vintage (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Feminism. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Classics

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I began reading The Second Sex in August, 2008; I finished it in May, 2010. It is not a book one reads for pleasure, in the usual sense of the word. It is written in the style of a textbook, with Jean Paul Sartre's version of existentialism as the underlying philosophical base. Since de Beauvoir wrote it in the late 1940s, it is to some degree an historical document with a French middleclass viewpoint. When I began reading and experiencing the density of the prose, I attempted to read 50 pages

It pains me to bail on this. Nevertheless, I have started to skip pages and then whole chapters and just dreaded to pick it back up. In my opinion, this is too dry, too repetitive and just plain outdated. I dont need 800 pages to be shown with evidence out of history and literature that a women is a second class human in a patriarchal society. I guess thats one of the big accomplishments of feminism that we are aware. I am more interested at this point to get pointers on how to slay the dragon.

This unfortunately was the short version of Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' as I made a mistake when ordering (because of the price), so this is only extracts from the full version which hopefully will read at another time. As a passionate supporter of feminism, equality and sexual liberation for women this was an interesting and for it's time controversial take on feminist philosophy and would suit anyone who doesn't have the time on their hands to read the longer edition, but I am a

If that was your problem with the book, you didn't stick through with it long enough. The last section (Justifications under Lived Experience) was all



As a feminist, it's been recommended to me for years that I read Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book, The Second Sex. As a regular person, though, I have always felt like it "wasn't the right time" to read it.What does that even mean?As someone living as "the second sex" myself, there is no excuse for this. I was lazy, bottom line. It's a big book, and while big books do not normally frighten me, I was worried I wouldn't be smart enough for Simone de Beauvoir. She was, from what I understand, a

No Wonder Intrigue and Strife Abound"A Man never begins by representing himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a Man." Man represents himself as both the positive and the neutral. He represents Woman as the negative. Man represents himself as objective. He represents Woman as subjective. Ironically, Man is the Subject, but objective; Woman is the Object, but subjective. Aristotle defines a Woman in terms of a certain lack of qualities and therefore as