SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR – The Feminist Icon Café Philo – Debate / 30th June 2021, 6.30 pm on Zoom

by Vanshika S. SEO Executive

On the occasion of

Publishing in 2020 an intimate work by Beauvoir withheld during her lifetime Generation Equality Forum 2021, Mexico-Paris

Participants :

Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir - Philosopher and

Simone de Beauvoir’s adopted daughter

Divya Dwivedi – Philosopher

Marine Rouch – Historian, PhD student in

contemporary history (FRAMESPA)

Aditi Maheshwari - Publisher at Vani Prakashan

Monica Singh - Hindi translator of The Second Sex

Moderator: Arunava Sinha - Indian translator and

Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka

University.

To attend register at:

https://ifindia.in/equality/simone-de-beauvoir

French author and existentialist Simone de Beauvoir has exerted considerable influence on feminist theory and gender studies around the world. In the context of the Generation Equality Forum 2021 and the publication of the book, The Inseparables (France, 2020), by Beauvoir’s adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, the ‘Café Philo’ organized by the French Institute in India will delve deeper into how the work’s protagonist brought about a feminist awakening in Beauvoir. Her landmark book considered the Bible of the feminist movement, The Second Sex (1949), will soon be translated in Hindi.