The Second Sex
de Beauvoir, Simone / Borde, Constance / Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila / Rowbotham, Sheila / Borde, Constance
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...