I would like to share you I review on my book The Beauvoir Sisters, that I found recently on the web:

Don’t read Claudine Monteil’s The Beauvoir Sisters: An Intimate Look at How Simone and Helene Influenced Each Other and the World for insights into Simone’s relationships with women. Read it, instead, for the tales of Helene’s founding of battered women’s shelters, both sisters’ connections with Carol Downer and the Feminist Women’s Health Centers, the harassment Simone received for writing The Second Sex, the circle of younger feminist friends from the Women’s Liberation Movement that surrounded them both during the latter parts of their lives – and to recall the incredible courage it took to stand up for abortion rights in those halcyon days of the early 70s. And for a cautionary tale about how easily we could lose many of these essential feminist advances. Claudine Monteil was one of the WLM “girls.” She started writing this memoir the morning after Helene died.

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