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The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir by Wendy O'Brien (Editor); Lester E. Embree (Editor) Identity without selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and bisexuality by Mariam Fraser; Mémoires / Simone de Beauvoir by édition publiée sous la direction de Jean-Louis Jeannelle et d'Éliane Lecarme-Tabone ; chronologie par Sylvie Le Bon de ...
"Ambiguity and Freedom," lays out the philosophical underpinnings of Beauvoir's stance on ethics. She asserts that a person is fundamentally free to make choices, a freedom that comes from one's own "nothingness," which is an essential aspect of one's ability to be self-aware, to be conscious of oneself: "... the nothingness which is at the heart of man is also the consciousness that he has of ...
Beauvoir asks, "What is woman?" [8] She argues that man is considered the default, while woman is considered the "Other": "Thus, humanity is male, and man defines woman not herself, but as relative to him." Beauvoir describes the relationship of ovum to sperm in various creatures (fish, insects, mammals), leading up to the human being.
The major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and 'the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.' [1] Or as one of Beauvoir's biographers puts it, her 'intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others, perceived by the individual as objects, were affected by his actions and ...
The Manifesto of the 343 Women (French: Manifeste des 343 Femmes) is a French petition penned by Simone de Beauvoir, and signed by 343 women, all publicly declaring that they had had an illegal abortion.
It is named after the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, known for her 1949 women's rights treatise The Second Sex. [1] The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Pierre Bras are the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee. [2]
She Came to Stay (French, L'Invitée) [1] is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre 's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz .
As in other Western countries, the role of women underwent many social and legal changes in the 1960s and 1970s. French feminism , which has its origins in the French Revolution , has been quite influential in the 20th century with regard to abstract ideology, especially through the writings of Simone de Beauvoir .