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Simone de Beauvoir: one life
3 books by Simone de Beauvoir you should add to your reading list. by Clara Rodier
Simone de Beauvoir in full Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, was born
in 1908 in Paris. Considered by feminist movements as a pioneer of women’s liberation, her whole life was a demonstration that one can be a woman and lead an independent and free life. She was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She became, in the Paris of the 1950s, the symbol of the free woman, claiming her place as a writer alongside the great post-war intellectuals. She had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. She was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Here are the three most popular books you need to add to your reading list.
Essay
The Second Sex (1949): “No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, that the man who is anxious about his virility”. —S. de Beauvoir ( The Second Sex , 1949)
Published in 1949, The Second Sex is De Beauvoir’s nearly 1,000-page written in two years and become a standard of fe minist culture.
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This essay is a critique of patriarchy and the second-rate status granted to women throughout history. In this book, she asked existential questions “what it means to be a woman?” “are we born women?”. The Second Sex advocates
