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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind (edición 2023)

por Regan Penaluna (Autor)

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"An exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential seventeenth- and eighteenth-century feminist philosophers Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia. Growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions. In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to 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, would grind her down through its misogyny, its harassment, and its devaluation of women and their intellect. Where were the women philosophers? One day, in an obscure monograph, Penaluna came across Damaris Cudworth Masham's name. A contemporary of John Locke, Masham wrote about knowledge, God, and the condition of women. Masham's work led Penaluna to other remarkable women philosophers of the era: Mary Astell, who moved to London at twenty-one and made a living writing philosophy; Catharine Cockburn, a philosopher, novelist, and playwright; and the better-known Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote extensively in defense of women's minds. Together, these women rekindled Penaluna's love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness. In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell these women's stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally"--… (más)
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Título:How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Autores:Regan Penaluna (Autor)
Información:Grove Press (2023), 320 pages
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind por Regan Penaluna

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Well this was engaging yet wildly depressing, and I highly doubt that was the author’s goal here. It’s one of my favorite nonfic blends of memoir, biography, and women, and it covers philosophy which I never really studied so was intrigued. If people haven’t gotten the memo that academia and the PhD track are wretched, you’ll find out about it here; of course then you get tons of typical misogyny thrown in there for you too. I think it was the defeatism which was depressing for me, but I can also see the need to pivot in life as well; if nothing else I guess it was a relatively honest if not exactly empowering read. ( )
  spinsterrevival | Nov 12, 2023 |
2023, nonfiction, women, women’s literature, feminism, history, philosophy ( )
  green_iguana | Jun 28, 2023 |
How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna is an interesting book as a bit of history and a memoir, and less so as a book on philosophical thought.

I guess I was fortunate to have gone to a school with a less prestigious philosophy department, because during my undergrad in the early 90s I became familiar (though admittedly not very) with three of the four main philosophers Penaluna concentrates on. The male-centric presentation of philosophical thought meant I got little more than a brief introduction, but I didn't have to stumble across them on my own, they were part of my formal study. This doesn't take away from the bigger point, namely that women, as both subjects of study and as members of faculty within philosophy departments, are tremendously underrepresented, even now after decades of trying to fix it.

Just because the recovery work on these philosophers is more for Penaluna than an actual recovery for academia itself doesn't change the role they played in her growth. And that aspect of the book is probably the most interesting, the memoir part. I didn't care for her authorial voice but ending up in journalism partially explains it. The writing itself is fine, I just never really felt the kind of trust one needs in a memoirist to fully appreciate it. Every memoirist does a bit of image construction, just as we all tell our own stories with a bias toward ourselves. I just didn't completely trust the personal parts, even when I had no doubt the infrastructure around her was not designed to support her or any other woman.

I would recommend this to readers who want a memoir and a bit of a history of women in philosophy, particularly those readers who don't have a philosophy background and thus will be unfamiliar with the philosophers covered.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )
  pomo58 | Nov 6, 2022 |
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"An exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential seventeenth- and eighteenth-century feminist philosophers Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia. Growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions. In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to 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, would grind her down through its misogyny, its harassment, and its devaluation of women and their intellect. Where were the women philosophers? One day, in an obscure monograph, Penaluna came across Damaris Cudworth Masham's name. A contemporary of John Locke, Masham wrote about knowledge, God, and the condition of women. Masham's work led Penaluna to other remarkable women philosophers of the era: Mary Astell, who moved to London at twenty-one and made a living writing philosophy; Catharine Cockburn, a philosopher, novelist, and playwright; and the better-known Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote extensively in defense of women's minds. Together, these women rekindled Penaluna's love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness. In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell these women's stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally"--

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