Simon de Beauvoir on FEMINISM
Simone De Beauvoir was born in Jan. 9, 1908 and died in April 14, 1986 in Paris, France. While studying at the Sorbonne, she met Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau- Ponty, beginning a lifelong association with them. With these two philosophers, she founded a literary and political journal. She belonged to a feminist collective and was politically active in feminist causes. She wrote several novels and a number of philosophical works, the most notable of which was The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949; translated as The Second Sex , 1952).In the present paper an attempt has been made to draw attention towards Beauvoir’s observation on ‘how women have been deliberately given secondary place’. De Beauvoir’s text ( The Second Sex , 1952) laid the foundations for much of the feminist theory and political activism that emerged duri...