Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is one of the foundational texts of Western feminism and remains popular 70 years after its publication due to its dissection of the gender dichotomy in society.

Acertain mythology surrounds Simone de Beauvoir. It presents her to the world as an independent thinker, a spokesperson for women and an advocate of freedom. In truth, the French existentialist ...

Simone de Beauvoir:A BiographyBy Deirdre BairSummit, 718 pages, $24.95Simone de Beauvoir wanted to be remembered as a writer first and not primarily as a feminist, but in Deirdre Bair`s ...

Born in Paris in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a feminist philosopher, writer, and teacher. She won the Prix Goncourt, France’s prestigious literary award, for her 1954 novel The Mandarins.

So ran a headline the day Simone de Beauvoir died in April 1986, ... The Second Sex, an encyclopaedic analysis of women's oppression, is still considered the greatest feminist tract of all time.

Simone de Beauvoir's seminal feminist polemic, 'The Second Sex', has been published in short-form for International Women's Day. But don't be put off by her austere reputation, says Natalie Haynes.

What Simone de Beauvoir told me over scotch In ‘Parisian Lives,’ biographer Deirdre Bair details why Beauvoir wanted to be remembered for more than her feminism November 12, 2019 ...

Simone de Beauvoir celebrated for naked body, ... I think de Beauvoir would have been amused by the hoopla over the photo. Personally, I’m happy to see a feminist depicted as womanly and sexual.

Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was born in 1908 into a reactionary Catholic family with pretensions to nobility. She had a Proustian childhood on the Boulevard Saint-Germain, in ...