How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0802158803 ISBN13: 9780802158802 Release Date: March 2023 Publisher: Grove Press Length: 320 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1" From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating 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 academiaAs a young woman growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What Penaluna didn't realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities, as well as the culture surrounding it,