Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was sh
Beauvoir in 1967
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial
Algren in 1956
Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Beauvoir, Sartre and Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960.
The Second Sex
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The Second Sex is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of hist
Simone de Beauvoir
…autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy", The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also known for her novels, the most famous…
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