The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is a literary society founded and chaired by Professor Yolanda Astarita Patterson, professor emeritus at California State University, Hayward, general secretary of the Society, professor Lilian Lazar at Hofstra University. This society publishes a biannual newsletter and over 2O volumes of articles and notes on Simone de Beauvoir from academics from all over the world. These articles are a reference to specialists of the Beauvoirs, and Sartre and other writers who dealt with them and to the history of the intellectual world of the XXth century. They have a bilingual website where more information is available.

Many books on Simone de Beauvoir have been published by members of this Society, among which:

• Yolanda Astarita Patterson : Simone de Beauvoir and Demystification of motherhood, Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1989, USA;
• Liliane Lazar : A chacun sa France, co-auteur Nadine Dormoy, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 1990;
• Beauvoir puis Sartre dans Pourquoi Sartre ? sous la direction de Vincent Von Wroblewsky, Editions Le Bord de l’ Eau 2005, Latresne.
• Elizabeth Fallaize : The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir ( Les romans de Simone de Beauvoir), Routledge, London and New York, 1998;
• Deirdre Bair : Simone de Beauvoir, une biographie, Paris, Editions Fayard, 1991
• Gérard Bonal et Maya Ribowska : Simone de Beauvoir (illustré), Paris, Seuil 2001
• Eva Gothlin : Sexe et Existence, la philosophie de Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, Michalon 2001 ;
• Barbara Klaw : Le Paris de Simone de Beauvoir, Editions Syllepse, Paris 1999 ;
• Eliane Lacarne-Tabone : commente Les Mémoires d’Une Jeune Fille Rangée, Editions Gallimard, Paris 2000 ;
• Vivi-Anne Lennartsson : Simone de Beauvoir, l’effet-sincérité, Sölvegatan (Suède), Lunds Universitet, 2001 ;
• Asa Moberg: Simone and I, Thinking about Simone de Beauvoir, Stockholm, Norstedts, 1996 ;
• Anne Strasser-Weinhard : Les figures féminines dans les autobiographies de Simone de Beauvoir, Editions Université de Nancy, 2001.

Les Temps Modernes (“Modern Times”) is a review directed by Claude Lanzmann and founded in 1945 by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It’s very useful for the understanding of the history of the XXth and XXIth century .

You may also read some articles written by me, about Simone de Beauvoir and the women’s movement:

• Simone de Beauvoir, the women’s movement: a testimony
• Simone de Beauvoir and the women’s movement in France: an eye-witness account (in PDF format).