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  2. Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir - Wikipedia

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    Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [silvi lə bɔ̃ də bovwaʁ] ⓘ) (born 17 January 1941) is the adopted daughter of Simone de Beauvoir. She is a philosophy professor . The meeting between the two women was recounted in the book Tout compte fait , which Simone de Beauvoir dedicated to Le Bon.

  3. Simone de Beauvoir - Wikipedia

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    Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir and Simone de Beauvoir met in the 1960s, when Beauvoir was in her fifties and Sylvie was a teenager. In 1980, Beauvoir, 72, legally adopted Sylvie, who was in her late thirties, by which point they had already been in an intimate relationship for decades.

  4. Simone de Beauvoir Prize - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. The Coming of Age (book) - Wikipedia

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    "De Beauvoir has separated the book into two parts. The first half is a look from the outside in. How society and its citizens view old age, ranging from how families treat their elders to the views of old age by the philosophers and literary giants throughout the years.

  6. The Second Sex - Wikipedia

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    Beauvoir finds fault with the Napoleonic Code, criticizes Auguste Comte and Honoré de Balzac, [20] and describes Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as an anti-feminist. [21] The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century gave women an escape from their homes, but they were paid little for their work. [ 22 ]

  7. The Blood of Others - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Category:Simone de Beauvoir - Wikipedia

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  9. The Ethics of Ambiguity - Wikipedia

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    The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, where she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre 's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness ( French : L'Être et le ...