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Beauvoir

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Beau·voir  (b-vwär), Simone de 1908-1986.
French writer, existentialist, and feminist whose works include The Second Sex (1949) and The Coming of Age (1970), a study of how different cultures view old age.
Beauvoir (French) [bovwar]
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(Biographies / Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986) F, French, WRITING: novelist, POLITICS: feminist) Simone de (simɔn də). 1908-86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le sang des autres (1944),
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Noun1.Beauvoir - French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
Simone de Beauvoir


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De Beauvoir notes that "we are in favor of an egalitarian society and the abolition not only of the exploitation of man by man, but of hierarchies, privileges and so on.
Sartre and Camus: the yoke of enlightenment by Horowitz, Irving Louis / Modern Age
A Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus for the literati, Manliness ranges from Aristotle to Nietzsche to Simone de Beauvoir, but Mansfield's message is fairly simple: Men--the manly kind, at least--are by nature strong, dominant, aggressive, self-confident risk takers.
The cult of 'manliness': a curmudgeon's defense of "manly men" ... by Young, Cathy / Reason
And about how all these uppity women like Simone de Beauvoir complain about everything but never had an idea that some man didn't think of first.
The masculine mystique: a Harvard professor has written a book on ... by Longman, Phillip / Washington Monthly
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