Philosopher · Twentieth century · France
Simone de Beauvoir
1908–1986
French thinker whose Second Sex of 1949 founded modern feminist philosophy with the line one is not born, but becomes, a woman. Sartre's lifelong partner and his sharpest critic, she wrote ethics, novels, and memoirs. She lived 1908 to 1986.
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- Born
- 1908, Paris, France.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Simone de Beauvoir
- Died
- 1986, Paris.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Simone de Beauvoir
- School
- Existentialism and feminism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Simone de Beauvoir
- Known for
- The Second Sex, the ethics of ambiguity, and the analysis of woman as the Other.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Simone de Beauvoir
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