The Married Woman

The Married Woman

Beauvoir? like Sartre? did not really become politicized until the Second World War when they formed a group supporting Resistance activities. As anti-colonialists? they were also involved in campaigns against the French occupation of Algeria. This was a defining battle for the left in France and an issue that polarized national opinion. In 1962? Beauvoir received death threats as a result of speaking out against the abuse of an Algerian woman by French forces.

She also condemned? the Vietnam War and demonstrated against? the suppression of left wing newspapers? by the Gaullist government during 1968. Beauvoir held broadly ...