Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) was a French writer, a political activist and a feminist, deeply connected to the existentialist movement. She's known for The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression that laid the foundation for the contemporary feminist movement.
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Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943) was a key member of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose, which distributed leaflets...