Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
Born Simonne Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Authors and Writers
Authors and Writers
Biography
French writer, philosopher, feminist. She has come to be seen as the mother of post-1968 feminism. Philosophical writings linked to Sartrian existentialism. Best known for her work The Second Sex (1949) which contained detailed analysis of women’s oppression. Other major works: The Guest (1943); Memoires d’une jeune fille rangŽe (1958).
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