Brigitte Bardot reflects on the stardom she escaped from more than 50 years ago in “Bardot” the doc about the iconic French ...

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Banksy's new mural in Marseille is not the first image he has connected to the history of ideas. A Banksy expert reveals the philosophy behind these popular artworks.

But while emphasising the role of the brain in gender identity, Serano agrees with Judith Butler and Simone de Beauvoir that social norms can influence or interpret one’s subconscious sex.

Centuries later Simone de Beauvoir, in her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, described her stance as “the first time a woman takes up her pen to defend her sex.” Related Topics WOMEN ...

Out of print for 40 years, it’s the sheer energy of this short novel that overwhelms. It follows black American Lewis Jones as she navigates the decadent worlds of 1970s New York and Detroit in ...

Her family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a child. Now, in the 1980s, she teaches in Montpellier, ... and become a great woman like Simone de Beauvoir.

Her family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a child. Now, in the 1980s, she teaches in Montpellier, ... and become a great woman like Simone de Beauvoir.

It is possible to read this shift in emphasis from labour to thinking as a response to the earlier devaluing of maternity in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, in which reproductive labour remains ...

According to De Beauvoir, “nursing an infant is more tiring than pregnancy, but it enables the nursing mother to prolong the state of being on vacation in peace and plenitude, enjoyed in pregnancy”, I ...

Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death, in which Beauvoir documents her mother's death from intestinal cancer in careful detail, proves just such a violation of maternal privacy. Beauvoir writes of ...

British writer Angela Carter was a creative trailblazer. And in 1979, she published a book attempting the near impossible, claiming Sade –pornographer and literary bad boy – as a proto-feminist.