Bookmark: Daughters of de Beauvoir (1989)

22 Mar 1989.
A documentary film looking at the influence the French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s work and unconventional lifestyle have had on women throughout the world.
Her life story, with all its conflicting emotions and experience, is told in parallel with the stories of the women appearing in the film - all of whom cite Simone de Beauvoir as a major force in their lives, in the year that marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of her best-known book, The Second Sex.
With Kate Millett, Marge Piercy, Eva Figes, Ann Oakley, Simone’s sister Helene ('Poupette’ in the autobiographies), her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, and three women for whom reading Simone de Beauvoir’s books proved inspiring and disturbing.
A PM Pictures production for BBCtv in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain

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Thank you for this interesting documentary. It is very good!

[@richardburt9812]

"lived experience." "You cannot understand." amazing how long ago the phrase and the sentence were formulated.

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mary wollstonecraft said all this way before. mother daughter relationships are not always 'so awful', they can be best friendships. her way of coping with being childless which was probably her biggest sadness.