TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Beauvoir Simone de
TI  - The second sex
SN  - 9780099595731
AV  - HQ1208 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
N1  - Volume I FACTS AND MYTHS

INTRODUCTION
Part I- Destiny
Ch 1- Biological Data
Ch 2- The Psychoanalytical Point of View
Ch 3- The Point of View of Historical Materialism 

PART II- History
Ch 1-5

PART III- Myths 
Ch 1-3

Volume II- LIVED EXPERIENCE 
Introduction 
PART I- Situation 
Ch 1 Childhood
Ch 2 The Girl
Ch 3 Sexual Initiation 
Ch 4 The Lesbian

PART- II  Situation 
Ch 5 The Married Woman
Ch 6 The Mother
Ch 7 Social Life
Ch 8 Prostitutes and Hetaeras 
Ch 9 From Maturity to Old Age 
Ch 10 Woman's Situation and Character

 PART III- Justifications
Ch 11 The Narcissist
Ch 12 The Woman in Love
Ch 13 The Mystic 
 
PART IV- Towards Liberation 
Ch 14- The Independent Woman 


N2  - 'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian

Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence
ER  -