Existentialism & feminist thought · 1908–1986

Simone de Beauvoir

Freedom is built with others.

Paris · France

Portraits: artistic interpretations

Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Read The Ethics of Ambiguity through the question of responsibility: how to act without denying constraints or retreating into helplessness.

Enter The Second Sex by following its movement: from explanations and myths to lived experience, then to the question of emancipation.

Discover Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter as a story of formation in which individual choices meet family, norms and available resources.