How to think like a woman: four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
More Details
ISBN:
9780802158802
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
| Grouped Work ID | 70ece558-0eef-a9be-4922-36188da15895 |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | how to think like a woman four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind |
| Grouping Author | regan penaluna |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-08-05 05:08:37AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-08-16 05:13:11AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Penaluna, Regan
author_display
Penaluna, Regan
available_at_catalog
Green Road Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Leesville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
collection_catalog
Adult Non-Fiction
detailed_location_catalog
Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
display_description
"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"--
format_catalog
Book
format_category_catalog
Books
id
70ece558-0eef-a9be-4922-36188da15895
isbn
9780802158802
itype_catalog
BK
last_indexed
2025-08-16T09:13:11.586Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
local_callnumber_catalog
190.82 PENAL
owning_library_catalog
Wake County Public Libraries
owning_location_catalog
Duraleigh Road Community
Green Road Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Green Road Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
primary_isbn
9780802158802
publishDate
2023
publisher
Grove Press
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Sexism in higher education
Women philosophers
Women philosophers
title_display
How to think like a woman : four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
title_full
How to think like a woman : four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind / Regan Penaluna
title_short
How to think like a woman
title_sub
four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
topic_facet
Sexism in higher education
Women philosophers
Women philosophers
Solr Details Tables
item_details
| Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Location | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:771368 | 8262753 | North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | NOR | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262751 | Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | Checked out | DUR | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262752 | Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | Checked out | NER | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262754 | Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | NER | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262756 | Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262757 | Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LEE | |||||
| ils:771368 | 8262758 | Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction | 190.82 PENAL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | GRE |
record_details
| Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:771368 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Grove Press | 2023 | xvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
scoping_details_catalog
| Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Is Home Pick Up Only | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Home Pick Up PTypes | Local Url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:771368 | 8262753 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262751 | Checked out | Checked out | false | false | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262752 | Checked out | Checked out | false | false | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262754 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262756 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262757 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:771368 | 8262758 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false |