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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Maybe someday
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Readers
40/100Critics
37/100Scholars
Author:
Regan Penaluna
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
March 14, 2023
An account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia.
What The Reviewers Say
Invigorating.
Penaluna sometimes seems to agree that there is no such thing as the female mind. She chafes at the suggestion that women are intrinsically caring and rejects the idea that they are naturally ill-suited to rational pursuits. It is suspicious, then, that the main point of connection among the four thinkers she has chosen to write about, or at least the one that she stresses, is simply that each is female.
Penaluna...writes ambivalently of navigating male-dominated philosophy departments, where she wondered if her negative experiences were the result of sexism or her own inadequacy.
Thought-provoking.
