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.

While men often dominate the pages of philosophy, women thinkers have quietly reshaped our understanding of the world. Here ...

Women in Indian films and society choose themselves, reclaiming space and time through quiet acts of resistance and self-discovery.

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...