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NEWS ABOUT: Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - Looking to vacation in a spot that inspired your favorite novel? USA Today asks travel expert Melissa Biggs Bradley about the best hotels to connect physically with the literature.
  • The Resort at Paws Up, Greenough, Mont.: "The Blackfoot River, which runs through this 37,000-acre ranch,
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entertainment • travel • New York City • Montana • literature • Paris • hotel • Key West • Edith Wharton • Simone de Beauvoir • Ernest Hemingway • Jay-ZTV • Oscar Wilde • Herman Melville • Gertrude Stein • Norman Maclean • Lennox, Mass.

At 100, Beauvoir Stirs Anew

Female equality remains hot topic in native France on centenary of icon's birth

Jan 9, 08 2:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Simone de Beauvoir was born 100 years ago today, and the Independent observes the centenary by asking whether women are still the second sex in the feminist's native France. Her writings influenced multiple generations of women by dismantling assumptions about feminine identity, and new biographies have humanized the once imperious-seeming... More »

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feminism • France • philosophy • Simone de Beauvoir

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