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SPEAKER_00: Hello. From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Encyclopedia Wamanica. Today's Beautiful Mind was an incredibly influential 20th century writer, activist, existentialist, philosopher, social theorist, and leading feminist. Her work has had an immense impact on modern feminist theory and more recently on gender theory. Let's talk about the remarkable Simone de Beauvoir. Simone was born on January 9th, 1908 into a bourgeois Parisian family. Her father was an aspiring actor in his early years before settling down as a legal clerk. Her mother came from a wealthy banking family and was a very religious Catholic. As children, Simone and her younger sister were also very religious. For a while, Simone even had her heart set on becoming a nun. In the aftermath of World War I, her family lost most of its wealth, and Simone and her sister were sent to a prestigious convent school. While there, Simone withdrew from her religiosity and spent the rest of her life as a devoted atheist. In one of her later autobiographies, Simone wrote of her childhood and later chosen profession. My father's individualism and pagan ethical standards were in complete contrast to the rigidly moral conventionalism of my mother's teaching. This disequilibrium, which made my life a kind of endless disputation, is the main reason why I became an intellectual. Like many of the beautiful minds we're covering this month, Simone's great intellect was apparent from a very early age. Her father regaled his friends with stories of her early intellectual exploits and would boast that she thinks like a man, which apparently was meant as a compliment at the time. Simone studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and graduated in 1929. During her studies, Simone met the young Jean-Paul Sartre, who himself would become one of the leading philosopher writers of the 20th century.
SPEAKER_00: Simone became part of his circle of burgeoning existentialists. Sartre and Simone would spend the rest of their lives together in one way or another, leading one of the most interesting and fruitful partnerships of the 20th century. Besides maintaining a lifelong soul partnership, equivalent to an open romantic partnership today, the two heavily influenced each other's philosophical and literary work. Simone taught in various French private schools until 1943, when she was able to quit her day job to write full time. That year, Simone published her first novel, She Came to Stay. A year later, Simone published her first philosophical essay on existentialist ethics. In 1945, after the end of World War II, Simone became co-editor of the book The Great War. Simone became co-editor of an influential monthly political journal that Sartre had initially founded with other major existentialists of the period. Simone would retain this editorial role until her death and use the journal as a testing ground for many of her ideas before turning them into full blown novels or essays. In 1949, Simone published what has become her most influential work, The Second Sex. In it, she introduces the famous phrase, one is not born but becomes a woman.
SPEAKER_00: This is the first modern intellectual articulation of the idea that there's a distinction between biological sex and the social constructions that we call gender. Simone argued that the fundamental basis for the historic oppression of women is not an inborn deficiency, but a historical and social construction of women as the other by men. She argued that men have othered women by inventing a false conception of women as having an aura of mystery that's seemingly inexplicable to men. Thus, men are not obliged to try and understand women or their problems, nor are they required to help with those problems. Simone compared this to similar forms of oppression that members of minority racial and religious groups experience. She also argued that the option for women to stay in the home is further means of women's othering. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Simone continued writing. She published many essays, and she continued writing fiction, including her famous novel, The Mandarins, in 1954. She also wrote a four-part autobiography, four books of philosophy, travel books on China and the US, and several volumes of short stories. In addition to feminism, Simone's later work also discussed aging. She was horrified by what she saw as the indifference with which modern society treats the elderly. On April 14, 1986, at the age of 78, Simone died of pneumonia in Paris. She's buried there next to Jean Paul Sartre. Tune in tomorrow for the story of Another Beautiful Mind. Special thanks to my favorite sister and co-creator, Liz Kaplan. Talk to you tomorrow. Before you go, I want to tell you about another show I think you'll love. Recorded at Caveat in New York City, each episode of Nevertheless She Existed brings the story of a woman who was brings the story of an erased woman from history from their Lower East Side speakeasy right to your earbuds. You'll hear tales of gay nuns burned as witches, queens of New York City thieves, mothers, warriors, and poets. The fabulous, funny, and fierce Molly Gabey and Kylie Holloway serve as hosts as you travel down the rabbit hole of women's history. So check out Nevertheless She Existed wherever you get your podcasts.
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