For Jong, who had carried Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex around with her at secondary school, being a feminist was simply a state of being. As Fear of Flying was a novel rather than an ...

From medieval “courtly love” to the work of such influential French feminists as Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous ... Key topics in this track include women’s writing, feminist theory, ...

Gender-based violence is a symptom of entrenched patriarchy reinforced by sociopolitical and economic structures.

The director, Nadia Rousseau, reached out to me to see if the Simone de Beauvoir Institute would be interested in ... given that much of the Black feminist scholarship canon comes from North Americans ...

This is Hélène de Beauvoir: artist, feminist, forgotten sister of Simone. She is 45 in this photograph, and living in Milan – ...

Established in 1978, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute leads new research, teaching and thinking on women, gender, feminism, sexuality, race, oppression and social justice. In 2019, we began offering a ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Judith Butler joins Adam Shatz to discuss a landmark in feminist thought, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949 ...

In 1949, philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir wrote the groundbreaking ... the origins and relevance of this bible of feminism, charting de Beauvoir’s fact-finding journey across the ...