The Second Sex
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The Second Sex is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of hist
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Teresa of Ávila
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Teresa of Ávila, religious name Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic and spiritual reformer.
The Second Sex
…about the twelfth century. Beauvoir describes, from the early fifteenth century, "great Italian ladies and courtesans", and singles out the Spaniard Teresa of Ávila as successfully raising "herself as high as a man". Through the nineteenth century, women's legal status remained unchanged, but individuals (like…
Saint Teresa of Ávila by Eduardo Balaca
Young Teresa of Ávila and brother run away from home to travel to Africa by Arnold van Westerhout
Church window at the Convent of St Teresa
Letter from Teresa of Ávila to her niece, Madre María Bautista (1575)