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	The Social Construction of the Second Sex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sex is an easily visible, differentiable and testable criterion on which to draw conclusions; but it doesn't explain the one third that doesn't fit.
		Even today, the equality of the sexes in the family is often reflective of the economic equality of the partners.
		Sex roles originated in economic necessities but the value attached to any one role has become a factor of sex alone.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/womensociety/socconstruct.htm (7637 words)

	20th WCP: Is The Second Sex Beauvoir's Application of Sartrean Existentialism?
		In this description of the conflict between the warmth and companionship in a woman's traditional role and the loneliness of her future, Beauvoir lays the groundwork for her analysis in The Second Sex of woman's temptation to complicity with her oppression as the Other.
		One clue to Beauvoir's innovation is her reliance in The Second Sex on an analogy with racism, which provided a model for oppression.
		One source of influence on Beauvoir's theory of racism in The Second Sex, is Gunnar Myrdal's massive sociological study of the American race relations, An American Dilemma (1944).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Gend/GendSimo.htm (2604 words)

	Nancy Bauer: Beauvoir’s First Philosophy, "The Second Sex", and the Third Wave (Labyrinth, vol.1, no.1/1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Readers of The Second Sex, even highly sympathetic ones, often accuse Simone de Beauvoir of eliding the concept woman“ with a very specific picture of what it means to be a white, bourgeois female in contemporary Western culture.
		Her view is that biological sex is essentially like biological hair color:there’s a natural continuum, and how we choose to see that continuum is not determined by anything inherent to it.
		Because her philosophical inquiry into the question of sex difference is tethered from the start to her desire to understand her everyday identity as a woman, any evolution of this question into a different one—let’s say, a purely metaphysical one—is, at least, checked.
	h2hobel.phl.univie.ac.at /~iaf/Labyrinth/BauerN.html (3544 words)

	SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR IN AFRICA: "WOMAN = THE SECOND SEX?" ISSUES OF AFRICAN FEMINIST THOUGHT
		By 1949, when The Second Sex was published, the United States had replaced the Soviet Union in her view as the land of hope and glory for women’s emancipation.
		However much de Beauvoir is quoted for her opening sentence to book 2 of The Second Sex: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” her work is in contradiction with itself on exactly this issue.
		Second, in their analysis they produce images—of human relations, of motherhood—which open the mind for different ways of thinking about gender, thus “enabling other virtual futures to be conceived, other perspectives to be developed” (Grosz 2000: 1019).
	www.iiav.nl /ezines/web/JENda/Vol2(2002)Nr1/jendajournal/arnfred.html (6864 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Sex workers of the world unite
		Sex work is undergoing a belated industrial revolution.
		She spent two years working with the London-based International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW), which lists among its aims "the right to work on the same basis as other independent contractors and employers and to receive the same benefits as other self-employed or contracted workers".
		Other sex workers are forced out of brothels onto the streets and a much more dangerous environment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3818713.stm (825 words)

	The Second Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949) is the best known work of Simone de Beauvoir and a seminal text in twentieth-century feminism.
		In it, she argues that women throughout history have been defined as the "other" sex, an aberration from the "normal" male sex.
		'The Second Sex' by Simone de Beauvoir (Free English Translation)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Second_Sex (144 words)

	Second Sex #1: Outlaw
		The same folks who insist their kids have all pledged to wait until marriage to have sex, ignoring the fact that the kids in question are currently fucking like bunnies every chance they get.
		These are people who have no concept of a reality they don't accept, and when some bit of nastiness creeps into their field of awareness, they have to trounce it.
		Second Sex is an ongoing series of essays about the intermingling of sexuality, politics, gender, psychology, feminism, and philosophy.
	www.sexuality.org /l/mscott/ssex01.html (1736 words)

	The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
		In actuality the relation of the two sexes is not quite like that of two electrical poles, for man represents both the positive and the neutral, as is indicated by the common use of man to designate human beings in general; whereas woman represents only the negative, defined by limiting criteria, without reciprocity.
		She cannot think of herself without man.' And she is simply what man decrees; thus she is called 'the sex', by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being.
		For him she is sex - absolute sex, no less She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential.
	www.d.umn.edu /~svanderh/beauv.htm (6469 words)

	The Convocational: Sex and Second Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's the world of sex, fetishes, escorts, strippers and a wide assortment of sex toys and paraphenalia.
		Second Life is no different from real life and it's a good deal harder to hide away from the public gaze in Second Life.
		Checking the profile of the girl I saw she was an escort from one of the adult clubs in Second Life.
	theconvocational.blogspot.com /2004/11/sex-and-second-life.html (819 words)

	Nation's Premier Sex Expert Releases Second Book
		Sex &Love For Grownups: A No-Nonsense Guide to a Life of Passion offers sex and relationship advice to adults over the age of 40.
		Based on this belief and many other similar ones, the interest in sex, sexual behavior and sexual practices is the focus of endless research and study.
		Drawing on her yeas of experience as a sex therapist, Foley writes with honesty, accuracy and a subtle sense of humor that will comfortably answer the questions that many adults so often think about.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/9/emw282423.htm (618 words)

	Guardian \| A quick reminder ... The Second Sex
		When she goes on to pick apart the life of modern women, it is the life of women in mid-20th century France: that's what she knew.
		But women are still the second sex, even in the west; across vast swathes of this planet, they remain enslaved.
		De Beauvoir's scalpel-sharp thinking on sex, abortion, motherhood, marriage, the glass ceiling and the true nature of independence is as relevant as it ever was.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5284130-103680,00.html (368 words)

	Second Sex #6: Choosing Choice
		There's still that awful, outdated notion that a woman should have sex only for procreation purposes; it's bad enough when a woman has sex just for fun, but it's even worse if she terminates a consequential pregnancy.
		It reminds me of the image of a small-town slut, a girl known for liking sex and who does it with all the boys in town; apocryphal tales about her always end with her ruination through her tragic flaw, lustiness.
		Nice, normal women who have sex and choose abortion somehow morph into crazed strumpets who are eternally chasing pleasure and wallowing in debauchery, no matter the cost.
	www.sexuality.org /l/mscott/ssex06.html (1455 words)

	Shane Warne's second sex shocker! : HTTabloid.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to The Mirror, Warne is reported to have had sex with Kerrie Collimore, 31, on the bonnet of his BMW and sent her filthy texts as he tried to save his marriage.
		He wanted sex everywhere - outside, inside, wherever he could," one of Kerrie's friends was quoted by the tabloid, as saying.
		Earlier this month the cricketer, previously accused of sending sex texts to women, made a fresh attempt to mend his ways by promising to dump his mobile phone and use e-mail instead.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7242_1414335,00180009.htm (662 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Second Sex (Vintage Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953.
		As such this edition of the Second Sex is highly educational to all newcomers, but the shoddy editing will disappoint people already acquainted with this work, for it has robbed the book of some of its ideas and bite.
		Supplementing TSS with more recent works such as those by Germaine Greer, Andrea Dworkin and Kate Millet will give you a more general picture of feminism but it still remains the greatest and most complete work on women's studies and possibly the most important book to come out of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/009974421X (905 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
		Simone de Beauvoir died of pneumonia on April 14, 1986 and was buried alongside Jean Paul Sartre at the Cimetiere du Montparnasse in Paris, France.
		In The Second Sex, she ascribes women's oppression mainly to the essential sexual differences between men and women, and how they experience gender; how the eye of the other (l'autre) falls.
		Men and women will then be in a position to affirm what she calls their universal "brotherhood." Simon de Beauvoir's presentation of the subject-object dichotomy, the problem this presents, and the solutions she offers have had far reaching influences in what has come to called liberal feminist discourse for nearly 5 decades.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=244 (5249 words)

	Beaverton Valley Times :: Second sex abuse charge boosts bail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Police charged Keith Trevor Robinson, 37, with a second count of first-degree sexual abuse, a Measure 11 crime that carries a mandatory minimum of six years and three months in prison.
		The location of the second incident is still under investigation, said Officer Paul Wandell, Beaverton police spokesman.
		As a result of the investigation, police learned about a second complaint against Robinson involving a younger girl, who also was a church member.
	www.beavertonvalleytimes.com /article/6644 (535 words)

	ms.musings: Re-Reading "The Second Sex" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It appears that The Second Sex was literally lost in translation.
		Vintage has for years balked at issuing a new translation, but feminist scholars, believing that Beauvoir deserves more credit for introducing existentialist ideas that are believed to have originated with her lifelong companion Jean Paul-Sartre, are still pushing for it.
		According to [Margaret] Simons, Beauvoir's student diaries show she was interested very early in the problem of the Self and the Other, a term she used to describe the lower-caste status of women in "The Second Sex," but which also became central to existentialism.
	www.msmusings.net /archives/2004/08/rereading_the_s.html (830 words)

	The Second Sex - Word Power
		THE SECOND SEX stands, four decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.
		Among her most important books are The Second Sex (1949), the novels She Came To Stay and 'The Mandarins' and her great autobiographical writings from 'Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter to Old Age'.
		All of these books have been translated into many languages, and 'The Second Sex' is often seen as the founding text of modern feminism.
	www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/009974421x (383 words)

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		The Second Sex was not just an application to women of her life partner Jean Paul Satre?s existential philosophy, but it was her own radical response to the male-dominated intellectual environment in which Beauvoir lived in the 1930s and 1940s.
		The young girl must recognize herself as the second sex, a discovery that Beauvoir argues dominates the female experience, permeates her psyche and limits her potential to desire, discover, claim, possess and assert her identity.
		In both sexes is played out the same drama of the flesh and the spirit, of finitude and transcendence; both are gnawed away by time and laid in wait for by death, they have the same essential need for one another; and they can gain from their liberty the same glory.
	www.goshen.edu /mqr/pastissues/oct03birkybm.html (8874 words)

	Open Court: The Sage and the Second Sex
		Chenyang Li In The Sage and the Second Sex, Chenyang Li brings together a collection of essays that investigate the common conception that Confucianism is a religion that devalues and oppresses the female sex, and instead demonstrates that the reality is far more complicated.
		Chenyang Li has assembled a brilliant cast of characters within the covers of The Sage and the Second Sex to address the complex, long, misunderstood, and tortured relationship of the Confucian tradition with the women of East Asia.
		When you finish reading, all you hope for is that there will be a second volume that will continue the debate between the Sage and the feminist movement into contemporary times.
	www.opencourtbooks.com /books_n/sage_and_the_second_sex.htm (573 words)

	Planet Waves \| The Second Sex: An introduction
		The Second Sex is one of the few great early studies of women and their role in society, considered one of the foundations of the modern movement for gender equality, and the intellectual understanding of the plight of women.
		De Beauvoire's position is that, as the title suggests, women are the second sex, or outcasts in society, apparent if you study society, its institutions and so forth.
		It is only through long and excruciating social conditioning that what we think of as a "woman" is created, second in all respects to her male counterpart, and viewed, by him, as an other, an outsider, and not a fellow, not one inherently included.
	www.ericfrancis.com /articles/secondsex01.html (623 words)

	French Culture \| books: Philosophy: Nancy Bauer - Simone de Beauvoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bauer' s aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem.
		This beautifully written book is a call for philosophers to turn to The Second Sex as a work that is important and relevant to their enterprise - and for feminists to return to the book as well.
		Bauer argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women' s lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir' s discovery of a new way to philosophize - a way grounded in her identity as a woman.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/philosophy/bauer.html (400 words)

	The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly
		The Church and The Second Sex is Mary Daly's rebuttal of Simone deBueavoir's The Second Sex.
		The controversy attendant upon the release of The Church and The Second Sex propelled Mary Daly both too national renown and to a post-Christian theology.
		If logic were at all operative here, it would follow that, given this total identification of the individual with a fixed sex 'role', it should be impossible for the male to receive the word of God, and then, of course, it would follow that he could not transmit it.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/book-sum/daly1.html (1787 words)

	The Second City \| Sex & the Second City
		SECOND CITY CHICAGO The Second City announces new show times and special offers for Saturday, December 31, 2005 to ring in the New Year.
		“Sex and The Second City” is a tuneful, fast-paced and hilarious evening of musical comedy that proves that there’s nothing as funny as the battle of the sexes.
		Culled from The Second City’s vast archives, “Sex and The Second City” features some of the greatest scenes and songs from the legendary theatre’s rich history, all wrapped up in a new story that lampoon’s America’s favorite sport: Sex.
	www.secondcity.com /?id=touring/theatricals/sex (213 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Sex talk
		I first began to study the issue of children and parent communication about sex while writing "The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Hidden World of Adolescent Boys and Girls." I had many questions and was searching for some clear answers.
		In fact, the murky nature of sex seems to lend itself to a large number of self-described experts who insist that they are the single, omniscient bearer of truth.
		This offers an ideal opportunity for mom to share basic information, beginning with a definition in simple words, followed by a conversation in which she checks to make sure of her daughter's understanding and pauses to answer additional questions.
	www.salon.com /mwt/col/pont/2002/10/24/pontonthu (894 words)

	Elkmont man faces second sex-abuse charge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ELKMONT — An Elkmont man is facing his second sex-abuse charge in less than a month after a former neighborhood teen learned through media reports about the man's arrest, an investigator said.
		The boy, an acquaintance of Rickrode's, had clothes on during the encounter, McNatt said.
		After that arrest, a second alleged victim made accusations.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050715/abuse.shtml (171 words)

	Amazon.com: The Second Sex (Vintage): Books: Simone De Beauvoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The second category, and even more unfortunate, is the category of arguments which have long since been discarded as themselves sexist; for all of her attempts to be radical, she was still a product of her time, and rather a lot of ideas got past her internal screen.
		While I think we have made strides since THE SECOND SEX was written, reading this book nearly 70 years after it was written is a little upsetting: some of the saddest aspects of the life of the Other for women still ring true.
		Simone De Beauvoir is a prominent French philosopher that has written a worldly classic book "The Second Sex." Her book has been a study requirement in many universities in the women studies courses.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679724516?v=glance (2156 words)

	Sex - Second Virginity
		Many people wish they could return to virginity and are choosing to become "second-generation virgins." Second-generation virginity is a choice to abstain from sex again for a period of time.
		Becoming a second-generation virgin is one way to strongly state to others and to yourself that you have decided to abstain from sex.
		Reclaiming your sexuality - When someone forces or pressures you to have sex, or makes you feel your virginity was "stolen," it doesn't feel like that should be your "first time." Your first time having sex is special, and no one has the right to take that from you.
	www.pamf.org /teen/sex/virginity/second-gen.html (317 words)

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