Beauvoir in Beijing
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Simone de Beauvoir is pictured here attending a ceremony in Beijing celebrating the 6th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in 1955.
This file appears in: Simone de Beauvoir: The Parisian philosopher who ushered in the second wave of feminism.
Simone de Beauvoir: The Parisian philosopher who ushered in the second wave of feminism.
In 1949, existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex, a culmination of two years of research into the question, “what does it mean to be a woman?” Her findings would change…