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Simone de Beauvoir (Author) Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agr¿tion in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lyc¿ at Marseille and Rouen from 1931¿1937, and in Paris from 1938¿1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several b...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen 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 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic indep...

First published in Paris in 1949, a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Since then, this has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism.