Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher: Eulyumunhwasa
2-volume set | 210*148mm
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About This Book
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen
This massive, classic tome is still a delight to read. Simone de
Beauvoir is intelligent, scholarly, lucid, and witty; her thesis is
simple: early western philosophers established the female sex as "the
other" to rationalize and promote the development and growth of
fledgling patriarchy. "'The female is a female by virtue of a certain
lack of qualities,' said Aristotle; 'we should regard the female nature
as afflicted with a natural defectiveness.'" Referring to the earlier
research of noted anthropologist Levi-Strauss on the development of the
category of "other" - "as primordial as consciousness itself" in all
known human cultures - Simone de Beauvoir analyses the depth, breadth,
purpose, and result of the western notion of woman as not-man. The book
is sub-divided into two sections, "Facts and Myths" and "Woman's Life
Today," in which she examines and documents such subjects as "The Data
of Biology," "History," "Myths," "The Formative Years," "Situation,"
"Justification," and, finally "Towards Liberation." Simone de Beauvoir -
literary artist, philosopher, and founding mother of twentieth-century
feminism - wrote The Second Sex "less by a wish to demand our rights
than by an effort towards clarity and understanding." Forty-five years
after the book's publication, it remains true to its intent.
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