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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Dorothea Lange was born in 1985 in Hoboken. She became known as one of the first “documentary” photographers. During her career she published many...