Simone de Beauvoir

In "Simone de Beauvoir. Mother of feminism?" María Luisa Femenías analyzes Beauvoir's proposals, often misunderstood, unworthy or attributed to other thinkers, from a global perspective, to confront them with those of her successors. After more than seventy years of rereading, it can be affirmed that the contributions of this French philosopher redefined the culture and thought of humanity. Her work constitutes a pillar on which current social movements have been built, which include all people who live in conditions of exclusion, oppression and invisibility. Élisabeth Badinter, a great contemporary philosopher, considers that Beauvoir "was the fertile land that has allowed us to be what we are". The woman who never wanted to be a mother created the feminist movement and has, to this day, thousands of daughters all over the world. It is through her work "The Second Sex" that current generations of thinkers analyze the world.