The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir

This thesis will examine Beauvoir\u27s views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir\u27s views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir\u27s novels reflect her attitudes toward the condition of women? And why? How did other aspects of her thought- her attraction to existentialism and Marxism, her rebellion against her bourgeois background, affect her response to feminist issues