 HerÌýfeminism, her ideas and her legacy for modern France.
Had she lived, Simone de Beauvoir would have turned 100 this month. When 'The Second Sex' was published in 1949, it scandalised conservative French society, but its central idea that "one is not born a woman, but becomes one" opened the minds of a generation of women and has gripped women readers ever since. We lookÌýat her life and ideas,Ìýand her legacy for women today, in France and beyond.
Jenni talks to writer and feminist Michele Roberts,ÌýProfessor of French Literature at the University of Oxford Elizabeth Fallaize, Nabila Ramdani, a lecturer who has taught in both Paris and Oxford, and ÌýKate Smurthwaite, feminist blogger and writer. They are joined, from Paris,Ìýby Simone's friend Claudine Monteil, founder of the French Women’s Liberation Movement, and Agnes Poirier, a French journalist based in London.
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