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6 de mai. de 2016 · In her renowned introduction to The Second Sex, de Beauvoir points out the fundamental asymmetry of the terms “masculine” and “feminine.” Masculinity is considered to be the “absolute human type,” the norm or standard of humanity.
29 de mai. de 2024 · 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).
17 de ago. de 2004 · The Second Sex is a deliberate feminist phenomenological investigation of the sexed/gendered body, and it is considered a founding text in the field of feminist phenomenology.
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.”
In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86), Sartre’s fellow philosopher and lifelong companion, attempted to mobilize the existentialist concept of freedom for the ends of modern feminism.
The Second Sex chronicles de Beauvoir’s effort to locate the source of these profoundly imbalanced gender roles. In Book I, entitled “Facts and Myths,” she asks how “female humans” come to occupy a subordinate position in society.
27 de mai. de 2010 · The Second Sex was an act of Promethean audacity — a theft of Olympian fire — from which there was no turning back. It is not the last word on “the problem of woman,” which, Beauvoir wrote,...
The Second Sex analyzes the ways in which women’s freedom has been curtailed or annihilated. Beauvoir explains how, in a patriarchy, women—as the “second sex,” as “the other,” as ...
27 de mai. de 2010 · The first English translation of “The Second Sex” in 60 years restores cuts from Simone de Beauvoir’s landmark study of women.
The Second Sex. Simone de Beauvoir. Vintage Books, 2010 - Social Science - 822 pages. 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de...
