Simone de Beauvoir
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“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and social theorist. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy," including The Second Sex, published in 1949, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational...
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Zu intim für ihre Zeit
Sylvie und Andrée sind unzertrennlich. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie gegen den erstickenden Konformismus einer Gesellschaft, in der Küsse vor der Ehe und freie Gedanken für Frauen verboten sind. Sylvie bewundert Andrée: Sie scheint so selbstständig - und doch gerät gerade sie immer tiefer in die Falle ihrer ach so tugendhaften Familie. Diese trennt Andrée von dem Jungen, den sie liebt. Sylvie will ihrer Freundin helfen. Aber...
