A New Dawn for the Second Sex

To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important breakthroughs have been achieved by and for women in law, politics, and...

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Autor principal: Vintges, Karen (auth)
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Publicado em: Amsterdam University Press 2017
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