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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1989
Edition:Vintage Books ed.
Subjects:
Women.
Table of Contents:
  • Destiny. Data of biology
  • Psychoanalytic point of view
  • Point of view of historical materialism
  • History. Nomads
  • Early tillers of the soil
  • Patriarchal times and classical antiquity
  • Through the Middle Ages to eighteenth-century France
  • Since the French revolution: the job and the vote
  • Myths. Dreams, fears, idols
  • Myth of woman in five authors
  • Myth and reality
  • Formative years. Childhood
  • Young girl
  • Sexual initiation
  • Lesbian
  • Situation. Married woman
  • Mother
  • Social life
  • Prostitutes and hetairas
  • From maturity to old age
  • Woman's situation and character
  • Justifications. Narcissist
  • Woman in love
  • Mystic
  • Toward liberation. Independent woman.