Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apric[...]

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that[...]

New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Simone de Beauvoir, the great French philosopher and mother of feminism. When Simone de Beauvoir was a little girl, her father would proudly boast that she had the brain of a man - whatever that meant. [...]

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live for ever. But, as he recounts the story of his existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement [...]

Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, "e;One is not born, but rather becomes, a[...]

Lors de sa publication en 1949, le Deuxieme Sexe a fait scandale : des milliers de femmes ont trouve dans cet ouvrage une analyse des mecanismes de leur oppression, la preuve que leur sort n'etait pas immuable, et qu'elles pouvaient devenir les egales des hommes. Mais ce livre a-t-il vraiment consti[...]

International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. The articles cover three main issues: gender, ethics, and time. This volume offers valuable cont[...]

Mit diesem Werk, dem die höchste literarische Auszeichnung Frankreichs, der Prix Goncourt, zugesprochen wurde, schrieb Simone de Beauvoir den Schlüsselroman der französischen Links-Intellektuellen. Er ist zugleich politisches Tagebuch und faszinierender Frauenroman, der private Schicksale u[...]

Dette er Simone de Beauvoirs skildring av egen barndom og ungdomstid i Frankrike tidlig i århundret. Boka regnes som en selvbiografisk roman og skildrer oppvekst i en familie der far er konservativ jurist og mor sterkt katolsk. Simone var kunnskapstørst og visste før hun er 15 at hun skal bli for[...]

I Pyrrhos og Cineas (1944) reflekterer Simone de Beauvoir over vårt møte med den andre, og stiller spørsmål som er grunnleggende for etikk og politikk: Angår andre mennesker meg? Hvem er egentlig min neste? Kan vi handle og tale på andres vegne? Kan vold legitimeres? I Tvetydighetens etikk (19[...]