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Article: Simone de Beauvoir: Passions of the Mind
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- The Washington Post
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- June 21, 1987
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
A Life . . . a Love Story
By Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier
Translated from the French
By Lisa Nesselson
St. Martin's. 412 pp. $18.95
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR-now, who could possibly pretend to live
completely beyond the ripples of her influence, as if she had never
existed? This pioneer in rebellion, fighter for equal rights,
advocate of women's sexual freedom and financial autonomy, this
theoretician of womanhood-where would we be without her? And if it
is true that she was a product of changing times, of the need for
women to go out to work while men were getting themselves killed in
World War I, it is also true that she was a catalyst, helping to make
those ...