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Simone

One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman.

About Me

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone De Beauvoir Wikipedia et Le Groupe Merveilleux De Simone De Beauvoir

My Interests

Existentialism, Feminism, Writing, Societal Evolution, Marxism, Socialism, Gender Deconstruction, Social Science, Gender Equality, The Second Sex, Politics, Bisexuality, The Beauty Myth, Feminine Sexuality, Queer Culture, Oppression, Jean-Paul Sartre, Olga Kosakiewicz, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bianca Lamblin, Albert Camus, Nelson Algren, Sigmund Freud, Leibniz, Social Equality, Civil Rights, Leftist Politics, Revolution, Pro-Choice, Zines, Women's Studies.

I'd like to meet:

Other feminists, existentialists, & philosophers.

Music:

The riot grrrls of the early '90s.

Television:

The L word.

Books:

The Fear and the Trembling- Soren Kierkegaard,The Sickness Unto Death-Soren Kierkegaard,Being and Nothingness-Sartre, Nausea-Sartre, The Stranger-Camus, Plague-Camus,The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt-Camus, Cunt-Inga Muscio, Feminine Mystique-Betty Friedan, The Awakening- Kate Chopin,Waiting for Godot-Samuel Beckett, The Metamorphoses-Franz Kafka, Crime & Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thus Spake Zarathustra-Nietzsche, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellion-Gloria Steinem, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women-Naomi Wolf,Women, Race & Class-Angela Davis. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics-bell hooksThe Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution-Shulamith Firestone

Heroes:

The self-actualized woman: an individual who has separated herself from an oppressive societal construct of femininity.

My Blog

Bibliographie

    * L'Invitée, 1943 - She Came to Stay - Kutsuvieras    * Pyrrhus et Cinéas, 1944    * Le sang des autres, 1945 - The Blood of Others - film 1982, dir. b...
Posted by Simone on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:49:00 PST