A discussion about beauty, eroticism and the significance of muscle in Simone de Beauvoir’s the second sex and Yukio Mishima’s forbidden colours and confessions of a mask

In the following essay, I examine the work, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir alongside the novels, Forbidden Colours and Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima. The former is a work of classical feminism that was written in 1949 and that addresses the question of why women all over the world in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teo, Gerald Emmanuel
Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65587