She first worked with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Claude Lévi-Strauss, when all three completed their practice teaching requirements at the same secondary school. She took this opportunity to take steps towards earning a living for herself. The family struggled to maintain their bourgeois status after losing much of their fortune shortly after World War I, and Françoise insisted the two daughters be sent to a prestigious convent school.īeauvoir was intellectually precocious, fueled by her father's encouragement he reportedly would boast, "Simone thinks like a man!" Because of her family's straitened circumstances, she could no longer rely on her dowry, and like other middle-class girls of her age, her marriage opportunities were put at risk. Simone had a sister, Hélène, who was born two years later on June 6, 1910. Her parents were Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir, a lawyer, who once aspired to be an actor, and Françoise Beauvoir (née Brasseur), a wealthy banker's daughter and devout Catholic. Early years īeauvoir was born on 9 January 1908 into a bourgeois Parisian family in the 6th arrondissement. She and her long-time lover, Jean-Paul Sartre, along with numerous other French intellectuals, campaigned for the release of people convicted of child sex offenses and signed a petition which advocated the abolition of age of consent laws in France. Her life was not without controversy: she briefly lost her teaching job after being accused of sexually abusing some of her students. She also was a highly awarded woman, some of the most notable prizes being: 1954 Prix Goncourt, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Her most enduring contribution to literature is her memoirs, notably the first volume, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (1958), which has a warmth and descriptive power. She was also known for her novels, the most known including She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954). She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy", The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. īeauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir ( UK: / d ə ˈ b oʊ v w ɑːr/, US: / d ə b oʊ ˈ v w ɑːr/ French: ( listen) 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
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