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Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography (1990), is the definitive text on Beauvoir. Carole Seymour-Jones, A Dangerous Liaison (2008), serves as a double biography on Beauvoir and her longtime partner Jean-Paul Sartre. Useful overviews include Debra Bergoffen and Megan Burke, “Simone de Beauvoir,” in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 edition); and Shannon Mussett, “Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986),” in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Open University - OpenLearn - Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution. | Oct 22, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge Core - Beauvoir on Women's Complicity in Their Own Unfreedom. | Feb 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Carol Shields and Simone de Beauvoir: Immanence, Transcendence, and Womens Work in A Fairly Conventional Woman, The Stone Diaries, and Unless (PDF). | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - Simone de Beauvoir: becoming a woman. | Sep 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Simon Fraser University - Research Seminar in Feminist Criticism and Pedagogy - Simone De Beauvoir and T h e Second Sex: Fifty years on (PDF). | Jul 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Evil Genius with Russell Kane - Simone de Beauvoir. | Mar 30, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Towards Emancipation? - Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). | May 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Was Simone de Beauvoir as feminist as we thought? | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Simone de Beauvoir. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Research Guides - Simone de Beauvoir. | Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: My Hero - Simone De Beauvoir. | May 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Chicago - Woman is a Rational Animal - Simone de Beauvoir. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Contemporary Thinkers - Simone de Beauvoir. | Feb 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | Sep 12, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Simone de Beauvoir. | Jun 13, 2021 | ||
| “Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir” changed to “Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir”; “de Beauvoir” changed to “Beauvoir.” | Oct 28, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Heroine Collective - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | May 03, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin Madison - Biography of Simone De Beauvoir. | Nov 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Trinity College - Biography of Simone De Beauvoir. | Nov 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | Jul 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | Jul 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | May 18, 2012 | ||
| Added mention of new English-language translation of The Second Sex. | Jan 22, 2010 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Jan 22, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Simone de Beauvoir. | Jun 26, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 10, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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