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The Second Sex (Vintage)

Vintage

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Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness.  This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

The Ethics Of Ambiguity

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The Ethics Of Ambiguity (Paperback) Simone de Beauvoir (Author)
She Came to Stay

W. W. Norton & Company

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"One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." — New York Times

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. "Behind the sympathy there is curiosity. . . . A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop." — Sunday London Times
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

Touchstone

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This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.
Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (P.S.)

Harper Perennial

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Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colossal figures and their intense, often embattled relationship. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Rowley portrays Sartre and Beauvoir up close.

Tête-à-Tête magnificently details the passion, daring, humor, and contradictions of a remarkably unorthodox relationship.

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Beware - journalism at work - Portage Daily Graphic
Portage Daily Graphic, Canada - May 21, 2009
Beware - journalism at workI've done a lot of research into what it means to be a woman, and one philosopher I've found particularly interesting is Simone de Beauvoir. She asked the same question I asked: what is a woman? When she asked herself the question, instead of answering

Creating a feminist world was Marilyn French's goal in life - The Australian
The Australian, Australia - May 11, 2009
Creating a feminist world was Marilyn French's goal in lifeThe growing clamour for women's rights had seemed to spring naturally from the increasingly powerful campaign for racial equality by African-Americans, and French suddenly found herself at the feminists' top table in the company of Simone de Beauvoir,

DEASTRO To Release Free GROWER EP - Altsounds.com
Altsounds.com, UK - Feb 08, 943
DEASTRO To Release Free GROWER EP - Altsounds.com Altsounds.comDEASTRO To Release Free GROWER EP colorful aesthetic matches Chabot's energy and positivity to a T. Chabot putters around his Detroit home, visits his favorite bookstore, gushes about Isaac Asimov and Simone de Beauvoir, and plays a sweaty, packed show with his band.

TTBOOK: Facing Death - KUAR
KUAR, AR - Feb 08, 8047
TTBOOK: Facing DeathDiana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and VS Naipaul. At the age of 91 she's written her second memoir, "Somewhere Towards the End." Athill talks with Anne

Interview with Nancy Fraser: Justice as Redistribution ... - Monthly Review
Monthly Review, VA - Feb 08, 1668
Interview with Nancy Fraser: Justice as Redistribution Last year marked the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Simone de Beauvoir. What do you believe should be the goals of the feminist movement today? Simone de Beauvoir was an extraordinary figure, a great thinker. It is very interesting that she