simone de beauvoir

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{i} (1908-1986) French writer and philosopher, prominent feminist, author of "The Second Sex
a French writer who had an important influence on the development of feminism. Her most famous book is The Second Sex. She was for many years in a relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre (1908-86). born Jan. 9, 1908, Paris, France died April 14, 1986, Paris French writer and feminist. As a student at the Sorbonne, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she formed a lifelong intellectual and romantic bond. She is known primarily for her treatise The Second Sex (1949), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the "eternal feminine"; the book became a classic of feminist literature. She also wrote four admired volumes of autobiography (1958-72), philosophical works that explore themes of existentialism, and fiction, notably The Mandarins (1954, Prix Goncourt). The Coming of Age (1970) is a bitter reflection on society's indifference to the elderly
simone de beauvoir