Singing in the fire : stories of women in philosophy

Singing in the fire : stories of women in philosophy /

Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken huge steps in the philo...

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Other Authors: Alcoff, Linda Martín (Editor), Bartky, Sandra Lee (Contributor), Brennan, Teresa, 1952-2003 (Contributor), Card, Claudia (Contributor), Held, Virginia (Contributor), Jaggar, Alison M. (Contributor), Lewis, Stephanie (Contributor), Narayan, Uma (Contributor), Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- (Contributor), Nye, Andrea, 1939- (Contributor), Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) (Contributor), Schutte, Ofelia (Contributor), Warren, Karen, 1947- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003
Subjects:
Women philosophers.
Philosophy, Modern.
philosophers.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A life sentence in Bohemia / Sandra Lee Bartky
  • My open agenda, or how not to make the right career moves / Teresa Brennan
  • Finding my voice / Claudia Card
  • Taking oneself seriously, but not too / Virginia Held
  • Freethinking? / Alison M. Jaggar
  • Etc. / Stephanie R. Lewis
  • What's a brown girl like you doing in the ivory tower? / Uma Narayan
  • "Don't smile so much" / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • At the feet of Mrs. Ramsay / Andrea Nye
  • Philosophy and life / Ofelia Schutte
  • Autobiography of a whistle-blower / Kristin Shrader-Frechette
  • Getting here from there / Karen J. Warren.

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