Simone de Beauvoir (pronunciation in French: / simɔn də bovwaʁ / (listen), inscribed as: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, Paris, January 9, 1908 - Paris, April 14, 1986) was a writer, teacher and feminist French philosopher, she was a fighter for equal rights for women and for the decriminalization of abortion and sexual relations. He wrote novels, essays, biographies and monographs on political, social and philosophical issues. His thought is part of the philosophical current of existentialism and his work The Second Sex, considered fundamental in the history of feminism, was also a couple of the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.