Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist thinker for modern times
How a philosophical thinker radically changed the way we see women
The Forum · BBC World Service
May 26, 201839m 46s
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Show Notes
Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher and writer whose work exploring what it is to be a woman shaped feminist thinking today. A pioneering intellectual, she used her existential ideas around freedom and responsibility to shape her life, literature and politics. Rajan Datar discusses her life and work with writers Claudine Monteil and Lisa Appignanesi, and philosopher Tove Pettersen.
Photo: Simone de Beauvoir (Getty Images)