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This book contains a section on Stendhal romanticizing what is real and contrasts him with authors like D.H. Lawrence and Henry de Montherlant. In 2009, the first [emphasize] complete English translation of this book (-5[1])was made by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. This book claims that “homosexuality is no more a deliberate perversion than a fatal curse.” This book states that a group “doomed to (*) immanence” (10[1])is unable to reach “transcendence.” This (10[1])book’s volume “The Lived Experience” follows one titled “Facts and Myths.” This book uses Hegel’s master-slave dialectic when stating that men have made women “the Other.” For 10 points, the statement “one is not born, but rather becomes, woman” is from what book of feminist philosophy by Simone de Beauvoir? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: The Second Sex [or Le Deuxième Sexe]
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