Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study "The Second Sex" made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.

Lisa Appignanesi is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. 2019 is the 70th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's THE SECOND SEX, a masterpiece in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history.

About the Author
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster. The author of Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love, Madness, Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present and, most recently, Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love, Lisa Appignanesi is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Reviews
What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir's complicated `pact' with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, out of the life. It's a book that's attentive to de Beauvoir's times and alive to her urgent relevance to ours. Dr Lara Feigel, Author of Free Woman, King's College, London.



Book Information
ISBN 9781904950097
Author Lisa Appignanesi
Format Paperback
Page Count 182
Imprint Haus Publishing
Publisher Haus Publishing