A tragic LGBTQ love story that the great feminist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir presumed was "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime – has finally come out. Thirty-four years after her ...

In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had been called ...

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...

One of the most prominent figures in feminism is Simone de Beauvoir, who has left us a remarkable legacy. Among them are her famous quotes on love, women, and freedom, which you should know as they ...

Jen Webb has receive funding from the Australian Research Council. The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes ...

Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Leslie Camhi INSEPARABLE By Simone de Beauvoir Translated by Sandra Smith “It’s impossible to ...

Hypatia, Vol. 14, No. 4, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Autumn, 1999), pp. 36-49 (14 pages) For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a ...

In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...

Simone de Beauvoir was born in 1908 into an upper-class Catholic family. While studying for the competitive agrégation exam in philosophy, which she passed in 1929, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, the great ...