Title: The second sex /
Authors: Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986; Parshley, H. M. 1884-1953
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Women; Women; Feminism
Abstract: Woman's past and contemporary situation in Western culture is the focus of a detailed and uninhibited analysis of womanhood.
Contents: Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Author's introduction -- bk. 1. Facts and myths -- pt. I. Destiny -- I. The data of biology -- II. The psychoanalytic point of view -- III. The point of view of historical materialism -- pt. II. History -- IV. The Nomads -- V. Early tillers of the soil -- VI. Patriarchal times and classical antiquity -- VII. Through the Middle Ages to eighteenth-century France -- VIII. Since the French Revolution : the job and the vote -- pt. III. Myths -- IX. Dreams, fears, idols -- X. The myth of woman in five authors -- 1. Montherlant or the bread of disgust -- 2. D.H. Lawrence or phallic pride -- 3. Claudel and the handmaid of the lord -- 4. Breton or poetry -- 5. Stendhal or the romantic of reality -- 6. Summary -- XI. Myth and reality -- bk. 2. Woman's life today -- pt. IV. The formative years -- XII. Childhood -- XIII. The young girl -- XIV. Sexual initiation -- XV. The lesbian -- pt. V. Situation -- XVI. The married woman -- XVII. The mother -- XVIII. Social life -- XIX. Prostitutes and hetairas -- XX. From maturity to old age -- XXI. Woman's situation and character -- pt. VI. Justifications -- XXII. The narcissist -- XXIII. The woman in love -- XXIV. The mystic -- pt. VII. Toward liberation -- XXV. The independent woman -- Conclusion -- Index.