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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.
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
Monogamous marriage became an institution to be the base of the family and solidify a system for the family to handle private property and its inheritance. Monogamy would later spur on adultery and the business of prostitution. [59] In the book The Second Sex, author Simone de Beauvoir argues that marriage is an alienating institution. Men can ...
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 ...
According to scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir, getting married is an example of respectability politics for women and men. While being married gives participants access to benefits such as health care and tax benefits, de Beauvoir argues that this comes with the necessity to abide by bourgeois respectability. [40]
The moment also marked the end of her marriage. Within the year, she had separated from José Leoncio and began to spend long stretches in Paris, where she mingled with Simone de Beauvoir and ...
Les Amants du Flore (The Lovers of Flore) is a 2006 French TV film, directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, about the relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir beginning with their university years, then the following 20 years through the wartime, post-war fame and publication of Le Deuxième Sexe.
Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest, ... Simone de Beauvoir, from Le Nouvel Observateur (1971), [359] translated into English as the "Manifesto of the 343 Sluts" [360]