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  1. e. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir [a] ( UK: / dəˈboʊvwɑːr /, US: / dəboʊˈvwɑːr /; [2] [3] 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 ...

  2. Aug 17, 2004 · Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was a philosopher, novelist, feminist, public intellectual and activist, and one of the major figures in existentialism in post-war France. She is best known for her trailblazing work in feminist philosophy, The Second Sex (1949), but her original contributions to existentialism and phenomenology can be found ...

  3. Aug 9, 2023 · Simone de Beauvoir was born Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir on January 9, 1908, in Paris, France. The eldest daughter in a bourgeois family, De Beauvoir was raised strictly Catholic.

  4. The Second Sex. The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) 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 history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. [3]

    • Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. Parshley
    • 1949
  5. Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908 in Paris to Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir and Françoise (née) Brasseur. Her father, George, whose family had some aristocratic pretensions, had once desired to become an actor but studied law and worked as a civil servant, contenting himself instead with the profession of legal secretary.

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  7. Mar 22, 2021 · Simone de Beauvoir’s statement is one which is constantly referred back to in gender studies to question the construction of gender identity. Although it helped to spur on the second wave of the feminist movement, theorists such as Judith Butler have been instrumental in developing ideas around gender construction by also problematising the essentialism that has been awarded to sex.

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