Simone Beauvoir 9 January 1908, still relevant 2008

Today it is 100 years since Simone de B. was born, we need to recap some key facts found on the internet:

- Born and educated in Paris, Simone de Beauvoir was among the first women permitted to complete a program of study at the École Normale Supérieure.

- She contributed significantly to the development and expression of existentialist philosophy.

- In Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) (1949), de Beauvoir traced the development of male oppression through historical, literary, and mythical sources, attributing its contemporary effects on women to a systematic objectification of the male as a positive norm. This consequently identifies the female as Other, which commonly leads to a loss of social and personal identity, the variety of alienation unique to the experience of women.
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/beav.htm

In Norway, she was remembered on NRK as well as newsapepers, see the former e.g. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/bakgrunn/portretter/1075762.html