The other sex!- Simon de Beauvoir

Formally based on the novel of a boy named Stefan, but the most important person is his mother Katarina. Stefan parts and observes his mother, lives with his good eye. The book takes the woman at the center.

Katarina is a single woman living in Gothenburg with their children. She begins at a workshop on Simone de Beauvoir book, the other sex. Where she get girlfriends. Women's objective is to develop itself, through the participation of dental make about their lives with the support of Simone de Beauvoir tanks. Study Circle is not as good as women lose interest, however, they continue to meet. They meet at a cafe called Internationall, and they become very close girlfriends.

Annie becomes Katarinas closest friend. They live near each other. Annie is also a single mother with her daughter, Anna, who is just a half years younger than Stefan. Stefan and Anna share the lives of mothers.

You see the development charity and solidarity between women in the book, which also reflects Troken woman's life, its economic problems and their position as the other sex, which is affiliated to the society.

Katarina loses his best friend Annie. Annie is a charming woman with many lovers but she can not correct relationship with someone. She loves the most, while Katarina Katarina love her most. Kärleket as Katarina Annie will have access shortly after the love of her son and mother. She loves her more than any man, even his brother.

One of the most important in the book is the relationship between mother and child. This one can see the book's front also illustrating a young mother 's community with their children.

Stefan remembers reletionen with his mother. Page 27 pf 2. From the beginning, they were "in the universium alone. A warm dark universium. Soft, quiet, dark and empty. Then it slowly filled by things: the playground, sandbox, buckets, trees, rain, .. Then the people ...
Stefan will go to Paul, to Stockholm. But he does not want to stay there.
Mom, I get well to come back?
Yes, of course, Stefan.
In a week?

Page 264. with Patrik in Jane's apartment. why are you crying?
Stefan is at paul.

For both characterized by Catherine förgråtna face and his own efforts to be an adult and to survive and he had a large hole where the heart would sit.
Stefan, you will become a great man.
As Annie had said for so hundred years ago. A large man with holes in the heart. (250)

Transcendence is the opposite of immanence. (page 42)
The woman was deprived of the opportunity to go out of its present as a passive creature, as the other. Human beings have the capacity to become perfect people through the transcendent scene themselves. But this requires a different consciousness than the patriarchal.

Mike, Stephen's father is especially angry at Annie when she claimed to:
- You should not be so damn sure of himself. How nice is you do not. You fucking (seconds passed, but it was hours, for now were themselves gap, the gap was) whore! (s 81).
- Women said Samuel. There you Stefan, that you must learn right now: They are not to rely on. "(95).
Problems between Mike and Katarina. Page 99.
"There was nothing wrong with him, she thought. He just does not understand: He would not understand. She had not understood what it was like to have children. But the difference was that she had been forced to learn. It had she not been. "(P. 99-100).
Page 105.

Pages 107-108. Children and woman Swedish mode, joint custody.
Stefan feel that being a dad is not the same thing to be home. (112)

Alien to each other. They see one another as the other. "Boyfriend? Said Katarina surprised.
Yes, you know, "said Annie. Such as it hits: Another sex, you know, Katarina: Men and women and so there. "(142)
Stephen's relationship with the father.
Hi papa, I collect stamps. Send as many as you can. Greetings. Stefan. Katarina could see ahead of them how Mike ran around and bought and chose stamps in the United States. As if the stamps could give Stefan the father he would have, but as Stephen himself never shown any interest. ... A postcard father. For the first time she felt compassion for him. .. "Page 173-174.
Mike's letter to his son Stefan: Hi Stefan. How are you? I feel good. I've got a new car, a Ford. Here in the U.S. you have to have a car. There are no sidewalks. I am thinking of you. Dad. "(179).

Problems between Annie and her father.
Is he .. he is ... perverse in any way?
No, no, he is not so perverse, not more than usual in all cases.
To be completely honest, he is disgusting. He is ...
She was looking for org.
-.. a disgust. (187-188)

Why is Catherine not having any? (191).
Samuel testify against Annie. Page 222.
"He makes it to Annie did not want to be with him more." (It is Samuel?) (S 241). He testifies. Page 251.
Katarina (?) Witness (s 253)

Intercourse with Patrik. Her experience. She does not remember exactly (?). you can interpret Frederick? (page 281, pf 2)

Page 295. Katarina laughs Tue, in her own ears her laughter sounds strange, as if she has forgotten how to do when you laugh. "
Humiliation that poor mother. IMPORTANT page. 300

S 310. a bit lesbian. She thinks most about Annie. More than any man.
Page 306. DUALISM?

She did not love her as much as his son Stephen and his mother Sofia. By contrast, she loved her more than her boyfriend, Patrik "fixed in a different way." But she feels unsure what kind of love she hysste to his friend. Why Aniie loved her so much? Därföratt she was loved by her.

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