Simone de Beauvoir
January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986
French philosopher and writer whose The Second Sex (1949) was a founding text of modern feminism.
Biography
Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher, writer and feminist. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul Sartre, her lifelong partner, and taught in schools before writing full time.
Her book The Second Sex (1949) analysed how women have been defined as the other in relation to men and became a founding text of modern feminism. Her novels include She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1954.
She also wrote several volumes of memoirs and was active in leftist and feminist causes, including the campaign for legal abortion in France in the 1970s.
Affiliations
Employment
- Jan 1, 1936 – Jan 1, 1939 Lycée Molière (Paris) Philosophy teacher (she taught at lycées 1929-1943)
Education
Family
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre
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