Contents PAGE X INTRODUCTION TO THE VINTAGE EDITION -vii X INTRODUCTION xix TRANSLATOR'S NOTE XXXVii BOOK ONE:FACTS AND MYTHS CHAPTER Part I DESTINY I The Data of Biology 3 II The Psychoanalytic Point of View 38 III The Point of View of Historical Materialism 53 VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION,SEPTEMBER 1989 Part II HISTORY 会 Introduction copyrght1989 by Deirdre Bair Copyright 1952 by Alfred A Knopf,Ine IV The Nomads 61 Copyright renewed 1980 by Alfred A Knopf,Inc V Early Tillers of the Soil 66 All nghts reserved under International and Pan-American Copy. VI Patriarchal Times and Classical Antiquity 82 rght Conventions.Published in the United States by Vintage VII Through the Middle Ages to Eighteenth-century Books,a division of Random House,Inc,New York,and smulta- neously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,Toronto France 97 Origmnally published by Alfred A Knopf,inc,on February 24. VIII Since the French Revolution:the Job and the Vote 109 1953,and in France by Librairte Gallimard i two volumes as Le Deixteme Sexe I.Les Faits et Les Mythes,I.L'Experience Vecue Copyright by Libraie Gallimard,1949 Part III MYTHs Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Beauvoir,Simone de,1908-1986 IX Dreams,Fears,Idols 139 The second sex X The Myth of Woman in Five Authors 199 Reprint of the 1953 ed published by Knopf,New York. 1.MoNTHERLANT or the Bread of Disgust 199 Translation of Le deuxieme sexe 2.D.H.LAWRENCE or Phallic Pride 214 I.Woman I.Title 3.CLAUDSL and the Handmaid of the Lord 224 [HQ1208B35219749301412 744241 4.BRETON or Poetry 231 ISBN0-679-72451-6(pbk) 5.STENDHAL.or the Romantic of Reahty 6.Summary 238 248 Manufactured in the United States of America XI Myth and Reality 253 3579D864