Beauvoir
French existentialist writer
Beauvoir is a French surname, most famously associated with Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), the existentialist philosopher and feminist writer.
Her work *The Second Sex* remains foundational to feminist theory.
The name appears in discussions of existentialism, feminism, and twentieth-century French intellectual life: Have you read any Beauvoir?
French feminine given name
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- MontparnasseParis arts district
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
- polyamoryConsensual multiple romantic relationships
companionship · childless · travels · aging · illness · centenary · icon · trailblazer
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
phenomenology · freedom · authenticity · consciousness · subjectivity · mortality · absurdity · humanism
Author of personal recollections
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
- narrativeAccount of events
intellectual · Paris · writing · letters · journals · prose · criticism · drama
France's chief city
- communeShared-living community
- arrondissementFrench administrative subdivision
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
- boulevardBroad, tree-lined street
street · namesake · commemorative · memorial · plaque · bridge · square · library
Quality of being unlike
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- liberationRelease from constraint
- womanhoodAdult female state
gender · equality · autonomy · emancipation · sisterhood · misogyny · subjugation · independence
Simone
French feminine given name
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- MontparnasseParis arts district
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
polyamory · companionship · childless · travels · aging · illness · centenary · icon · trailblazer · bohemian
existentialism
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
ambiguity · phenomenology · freedom · authenticity · consciousness · subjectivity · mortality · absurdity · humanism · atheism
memoirist
Author of personal recollections
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
narrative · intellectual · Paris · writing · letters · journals · prose · criticism · drama · storytelling
Paris
France's chief city
- communeShared-living community
- arrondissementFrench administrative subdivision
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
boulevard · street · namesake · commemorative · memorial · plaque · bridge · square · library · institute
otherness
Quality of being unlike
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- liberationRelease from constraint
womanhood · gender · equality · autonomy · emancipation · sisterhood · misogyny · subjugation · independence · agency
BeauvoirThomas Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian
Aristotle · Jordan Peterson · Plato · Rousseau · sociobiologists
beauty, beautiful, beautifully, beautify, beautification, beauteous, beau, beaux