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6 de mai. de 2016 · Simone de Beauvoir‘s The Second Sex (1949) can be said to have inaugurated the second wave of feminism, with its central argument that throughout history, across cultures, woman has always occupied a secondary position in relation to man, being relegated to the position of the “other”, that which is adjectival to the ...
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Volume One
Beauvoir asks, "What is woman?"She argues that man is considered the default, while woman is considered the "Other": "Thus, humanity is male, and man defines woman not herself, but as relative to him." Beauvoir describes the relationship of ovum to sperm in various creatures (fish, insects, mammals), leading up to the human being. She describes women's subordination to the species in terms of reproduction, compares the physiology of men and women, concluding that values cannot be based on phy...
Volume Two
Presenting a child's life beginning with birth, Beauvoir contrasts a girl's upbringing with a boy's, who at age 3 or 4 is told he is a "little man". A girl is taught to be a woman and her "feminine" destiny is imposed on her by society. She has no innate "maternal instinct". A girl comes to believe in and to worship a male god and to create imaginary adult lovers. The discovery of sex is a "phenomenon as painful as weaning" and she views it with disgust. When she discovers that men, not women...
The first French publication of The Second Sex sold around 22,000 copies in a week. It has since been translated into 40 languages. The Vatican placed the book on its List of Prohibited Books. The sex researcher Alfred Kinsey was critical of The Second Sex, holding that while it was interesting as a work of literature, it was of no value to science...
The Spanish-language translation of The Second Sex (printed in Argentina) was banned in Francoist Spain in 1955. Spanish feminists smuggled in copies of the book and circulated it in secret. A full Castilian Spanish translation of The Second Sexwas published in 1998. The Catholic Church's Vatican-based leadership condemned The Second Sex and added ...
The rise of second wave feminism in the United States spawned by Betty Friedan’s book, The Feminine Mystique, which was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s, The Second Sex, took significantly longer to reach and impact the lives of European women. Even though The Second Sex was published in 1949 and Feminine Mystique was published in 1963, the French ...
Many commentators have pointed out that the 1953 English translation of The Second Sex by H. M. Parshley, frequently reissued, is poor. A reviewer from The New York Times described the zoologist hired to do the translation as having "a college undergraduate's knowledge of French." The delicate vocabulary of philosophical concepts is frequently mist...
Le Monde's100 Books of the CenturyCusk, Rachel (December 11, 2009). "Shakespeare's daughters". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media.Smith, Joan (December 18, 2009). "The Second Sex, By Simone de Beauvoir trans. Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier". The Independent."'The Second Sex' by Simone de Beauvoir". Marxists Internet Archive.(Free English translation of a small part of the book)- Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. Parshley
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10 de abr. de 2024 · Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist writer. She is known for her treatise The Second Sex (1949), an argument for the abolition of what she called the myth of the ‘eternal feminine.’. It became a classic of feminist literature. She also won the Prix Goncourt for her novel The Mandarins (1954).
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- Simone de Beauvoir attended the Institut Adeline-Désir, a Roman Catholic school for girls, among other private institutions. She began studying phi...
- Simone de Beauvoir taught at various lycées for most of the period of 1931–43. She thereafter earned her living through writing.
- Simone de Beauvoir wrote works of philosophy, novels, memoirs, essays, short stories, and journal articles. Her best-known work is The Second Sex (...
- Simone de Beauvoir was a significant philosopher of existentialism and a pioneering figure of contemporary philosophical feminism. Her The Second S...
Nature versus Nurture. De Beauvoir believes that woman’s inferiority in society is a result not of natural differences but of differences in the upbringing of man and woman. Male domination is not inherent or fated but conditioned at every stage of development. De Beauvoir says that “Man learns his power.”
De Beauvoir states that while it is natural for humans to understand themselves in opposition to others, this process is flawed when applied to the genders. In defining woman exclusively as Other, man is effectively denying her humanity.
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27 de mai. de 2010 · Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’. Share full article. By Judith Thurman. May 27, 2010. In 1946, Simone de Beauvoir began to outline what she thought would be an...
In Simone de Beauvoir. (1949; The Second Sex ), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the “eternal feminine.” It became a classic of feminist literature. Read More. influence on. philosophical feminism. In philosophical feminism: Nature and scope of philosophical feminism.
