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On April 14, 1986, Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris. She was the ""prettiest Existentialist"", who during her long and intense life had observed, described, analytically deconstructed and effectively changed the world that surrounded her, ""one word at a time"". An engaged intellectual like her life partner and comrade Jean-Paul Sartre, she took actively part in most of the main social and political struggles of the 20th century, including, first and foremost, women's emancipation and self-determination, as well as the decolonisation of French Algeria, and the denouncement of American imperialism in Vietnam and the marginalisation of elderly people in contemporary societies. This collection of essays, arising from the 18th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society held in Cagliari, Italy, in June 2010, provides a major contribution to the field of Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research provided by scholars from a variety of disciplines that range from French literature to gender studies, from philosophy to social sciences, offering a multifaceted overview on the ""state of the art"" of research on the life and the works of Simone de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.

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Andrea Duranti holds a MA in International Relations and a PhD in History of Asia and Africa from the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is a member of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, and his research interests include the history of the Middle East, gender studies and women's writing, contemporary political thought, and post-colonial studies. He has published extensively on these issues on academic journals and within collections of essays, and is the author of Il rosso e il nero e la rivoluzione della modernità. Breve storia del pensiero iraniano contemporaneo (2007).Matteo Tuveri is a freelance researcher and biographer of Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary, and is a member of the Simone de Beauvoir Society. His research interests range widely, from gender studies to Italian, German, English and Habsburg history and literature. He has authored several essays and articles about Empress Elizabeth of Austria, as well as the books Specchi ad angoli obliqui. Diario poetico di Elisabetta d'Austria (2006) and Tabularium. Considerazioni su Elisabetta d'Austria (2007). He works as Creative Director for www.mockupmagazine.it, and is also a web writer and a social media manager.

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