Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir weren’t just the reigning power couple of existentialist philosophers—they were also dedicated activists, railing against the Vietnam War, abuses in the Soviet ...

Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scholarship on themes relevant to Simone de Beauvoir’s legacy, such as gender and sexuality, race ...

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 ...

While pioneering philosopher Simone de Beauvoir is famously buried adjacent to fellow philosopher and long-term partner Jean-Paul Sartre, during her adult life de Beauvoir only ever lived with one man ...

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 ...

THE France into which Simone de Beauvoir was born on the ninth of January, 1908, though fairly solidly bourgeois, was in the throes of one of its periodic crises. The country had just been shaken to ...

Acertain mythology surrounds Simone de Beauvoir. It presents her to the world as an independent thinker, a spokesperson for women and an advocate of freedom. In truth, the French existentialist, who ...

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 ...

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 ...