Simone de Beauvoir: Passions of the Mind

The Washington Post | June 21, 1987| | Copyright

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A Life . . . a Love Story By Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier Translated from the French By Lisa Nesselson St. Martin's. 412 pp. $18.95

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR-now, who could possibly pretend to live completely beyond the ripples of her influence, as if she had never existed? This pioneer in rebellion, fighter for equal rights, advocate of women's sexual freedom and financial autonomy, this theoretician of womanhood-where would we be without her? And if it is true that she was a product of changing times, of the need for women to go out to work while men were getting ...

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