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About Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, social theorist, and feminist activist
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. She is closely associated with existentialism and with the development of feminist thought. Although she did not describe herself as a philosopher, her work had a major influence on feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Her writings are often read in the context of those ideas, rather than as part of a formal philosophical career.
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Books by Simone de Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe
1968
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
2005
Yikilmis Kabin
2013
Las inseparables
2021
L'invitée
1999