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Now showing — The Second Sex · 5 works

  • Flood Music · 2000s

    Flood is the second studio album by Japanese experimental band Boris, released on December 15, 2000. It consists of a single 70-minute title-track that is broken into four movements.

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  • Axis: Bold as Love Music · 1960s

    Hendrix's second album. Little Wing and the marriage of blues, psychedelia, and studio craft.

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  • If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by the Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It was released in 1996 on Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and in 1997 by Matador Records in the United States. It is often ranked among the best albums of the 1990s, including being ranked No. 14 in Pitchfork's...

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  • The Second Sex Essays · 1940s

    One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.

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  • Giovanni's Room Books · 1950s

    Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

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