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

by Regan Penaluna

A young woman's journey from small-town religious life to the life of the mind through philosophy becomes complicated when she discovers the field's deep-seated misogyny. Penaluna finds guidance in four brilliant but overlooked women philosophers—Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Arendt, Iris Murdoch, and Simone de Beauvoir—who teach her how to love thinking itself. A passionate meditation on intellectual life, feminism, and the courage required to pursue wisdom.

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