'Women, you owe her everything!" So ran a headline the day Simone de Beauvoir died in April 1986, when more than 5,000 mourners lined the streets of Paris to mark the passing of one of the world's ...

If de Beauvoir’s existentialist perspective is too innocent (and perhaps too ar­rogant) for a postmodern, poststructuralist era, it’s metaphorically appropriate to her subject. Since the denial of ...

Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...

In the shadow of the horrific alleged rape in Unnao and alleged rape and murder in Kathua, and worldwide acknowledgment of workplace harassment of women (#MeToo, #TimesUp), feminism has an important ...

This moment marks the culmination of two decades of protest over the butchered English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex.” Finally, the loudening cries for a new and improved ...

Simone de Beauvoir was undisputedly one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century. However, recently released personal diaries and letters to her lovers have revealed a new side to the ...

Jan 9 is the birthday of French philosopher, writer, and social theorist Simone de Beauvoir. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is one of the foundational texts of Western feminism and remains ...

“Women, you owe her everything!” announced newspaper headlines when Simone de Beauvoir, the French novelist and philosopher, died in 1986. As one of the first celebrity intellectuals and notorious for ...

What do Lindsay Lohan and Simone de Beauvoir have in common? Both the spray-tan party-girl princess and the mother of modern feminism recently raised eyebrows by appearing in racy magazine photos. The ...

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