How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
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.
Her story of rebuilding and reimagining personally and professionally demonstrates defiant independence from patriarchal prescriptions and their shame and an embrace of feminist anger, ambiguity, and diversity of thought. While the author struggles some to make all components work powerfully, the book is a solid, entertaining, and intellectually stimulating attempt at a new kind of work.
Incisive.