CONTRIBUTOR:

Margaret Simons

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Philosophical Studies

INSTITUTION:

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

BIOGRAPHY:

Margaret A. Simons is a professor of philosophical studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and also the founding editor (1986 & 1990) of Hypatia, a scholarly feminist philosophy journal. Almost obsessively, Simons has devoted her life-long career to the study of de Beauvoir's works and has published extensively: Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (Pennsylvania University Press, 1995), Beauvoir and the Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism (Rowman and Littlefield Pub. Inc., 2001), The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Indiana University Press, 2006).