The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949) is one of the best known works of the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major feminist work. In it she argues that...
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A Second Sex 04/01/2007: 1,391 words, approx. 5 pages
SINCE 1953, WHEN THE SECOND SEX first appeared in America, English speakers have been reading a botched translation written by a Smith College zoologist that reflects the mindset of a 1950s male. That, at least, has been the contention of a growing number of...
Forward 02-05-1999 A Second Look at the Second Sex When conservative cultural critic Danielle Crittenden looks around, she sees all kinds of female unhappiness. Thirtyish women searching desperately for ever-more elusive men to marry. Fortyish women waiting anxiously in fertility clinics. Exhausted mothers...
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the...
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video...
In the following essay, Simons explores elements of Marxist, socialist, and psychoanalytic theory in Beauvoir's feminist philosophy. According to Simons, "Beauvoir, in The Second Sex, laid the theoretical foundations for a radical feminist movement of the future and defined a feminist political philosophy of lasting importance."
In the following essay, Pilardi explores Beauvoir's philosophical investigations into female eroticism and passivity in The Second Sex. According to Pilardi, "in The Second Sex and elsewhere, a woman is described by Beauvoir as so totally merged with her erotic experience that her own body seldom appears to her as anything but a fevered 'receiving machine.'"
In the following essay, Moi discusses Beauvoir's philosophical analysis of female oppression in The Second Sex. "For Simone de Beauvoir," writes Moi, "women are fundamentally characterized by ambiguity and conflict."
