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Simone de Beauvoir
DATES:
January 9, 1908 - 1986
ABOUT HER
Writer, intellectual, feminist, rebel, Simone de Beauvoir was always
an independent thinker. At a young age seeing the misery of her mother's
life, she vowed never to be a housewife.
She partnered herself
with Jean-Paul Sartre for 51 years although she did not marry him, nor
would she live with him. With him she co-defined the concept of existentialism.
In her writing
life, Simone de Beauvoir wrote both fiction and nonfiction. The Second
Sex, her fifth book, became a battle cry for all feminists. In it
she wrote frankly about her experiences growing up female in a male-dominated
world.
Simone de Beauvoir
never accepted for the role society had created for her gender.
QUOTES
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
AWARDS/HONORS
- Goncourt Prize
for fiction
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir
The Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir
The Force of Circumstance, Simone de Beauvoir
A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin, Mary Evans
It Changed My Life, Betty Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Okely
After 'The Second Sex ': Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir,
Alice Schwarzer
LINKS TO LEARN
SO MUCH MORE
http://www.thomson.com/gale/beauvoi.html
http://www.tcp.chem.tue.nl/~tgtcmv/simone/beauvoir.html
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