Simone de Beauvoir
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- Beauvoir, Simone de
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1908-01-09
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Date of death
- 1986-04-14
- Place of death
- Paris
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: , US: ; French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, short stories, biographies, 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 of which were She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954).
Her most enduring contribution to literature are her memoirs, notably the first volume, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (1958). She received the 1954 Prix Goncourt, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, 1969 and 1973. However, Beauvoir generated controversy when she briefly lost her teaching job after being accused of sexually abusing some of her students.
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French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.
Last modified: 2020-10-22 (revision #35490)
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- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of Les sœurs Beauvoir
- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of Gegenspieler: Simon de Beauvoir - Brigitte Bardot
- Simone de Beauvoir wrote L'invitée
- Simone de Beauvoir wrote blurb for Liebe, Sex und Emanzipation: Essays
- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of Die Schwestern Hélène und Simone de Beauvoir
- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of La Force des choses
- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of Denken aus Leidenschaft: Acht Philosophinnen und ihr Leben
- Simone de Beauvoir is the subject of Der Lauf der Dinge
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