Simone de Beauvoir: Life, Philosophy & The Second Sex

The Invention of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir’s Enduring Revolution With one indelible sentence—“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”—Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) ignited a revolution in how the world understands identity. More than a philosopher or novelist, she was an architect of modern thought who dismantled the very concept of gender as a […]