Nom: Simone de Beauvoir

 

 

 

Pays/Ville: 

Paris

 

Date de Naissance:

January 9, 1908

 

Date de Mort:

April 14, 1986

 

Sexe:

Female

 

Croyances Politiques:

Since she we know she was a social activist and she was philosophically influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, we can imagine that her political views were influenced by him. That is to say she would have leftist political views and perhaps shared his idea that Marxism and existentialism were compatible.

 

Croyances Religieuses:

She was raised in a Roman Catholic household, but later rejected the idea of differenciation between different religious groups because she considered religion "an illusory justification for women's oppression.

 

Situation de Famille/enfants:

She had no family because she wanted to invest all her energy in politics and writing,

however she had a long term relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.

 

En Cherchant:

Friendship

 

Metier:

French writer, philosopher (however she did not consider herself to be one), feminist, and social activist

 

Interets/Loisirs:

• Equality of the sexes
• poetry, story writing, philosophy
• psychology, sociology, biology, history, and literature (topics examined in her book "La deuxieme sexe")
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• she valued freedom, choice and responsibility

 

Accomplissements:

• book "La deuxieme Sexe"
• book "The Ethics of Ambiguity"
• acknoledgements of her critics of her enormous impact on contemporary feminism

 

Education:

• Started her education at a private Catholic school 
• took training in philosophy
• she was the youngest student ever to pass the agrégation examination in philosophy at the age of 21

 

Films Preferes:

Marie-Antoinette, The man in the iron mask, Iron jawed angels

 

Musique Preferee:

Brahms, Mozart, Bach

 

Amis:

•  Jean-Paul Sartre
•  Albert Camus
•  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

 

Citation Memorable:

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" - Herself

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

 

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

• Independency of women
• more right for women
• initiated lifestyle of shared living before marriage

 

Resources:

 

"Simone de Beauvoir." Macmillan Compendium: Philosophy and Ethics. Macmillan Reference USA, 1999. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

 

"Simone de Beauvoir." Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. Serinity Young, Ed., Macmillan Reference USA, 1999. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

 

"Beauvoir's The Second Sex Anticipates the Women's Movement, June, 1949-November, 1949." DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/