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1 online resource (186 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Linda Martin Alcoff; 1 A Life Sentence in Bohemia Sandra Lee Bartky; 2 My Open Agenda, or How Not to Make the Right Career Moves Teresa Brennan; 3 Finding My Voice: Reminiscence of an Outlaw Claudia Card; 4 Taking Oneself Seriously, But Not Too Virginia Held; 5 Freethinking? Alison M. Jaggar; 6 Etc. Stephanie R. Lewis; 7 What's a Brown Girl like You Doing in the Ivory Tower? Or, How I Became a Feminist Philosopher Uma Narayan. |
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8 ""Don't Smile So Much "": Philosophy and Women in the 1970s Martha C. Nussbaum9 At the Feet of Mrs. Ramsay Andrea Nye; 10 Philosophy and Life: A Singular Case of Their Interconnection Ofelia Schutte; 11 Autobiography of a Whistle-Blower Kristin Shrader-Frechette; 12 Getting Here from There Karen J. Warren; About the Contributors. |
| Summary |
This is a unique, groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays by leading women in philosophy. It provides a glimpse at the experiences of the generation that witnessed, and helped create, the remarkable advances now evident for women in the field. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Electronic books.
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Bartky, Sandra.
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Brennan, Teresa.
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Card, Claudia.
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Held, Virginia.
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Jaggar, Alison.
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Lewis, Stephanie.
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Narayan, Uma.
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Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
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Nye, Andrea.
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Schrader-Frechette, Kristin.
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Schutte, Ofelia.
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Warren, Karen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alcoff, Linda Martín. Singing in the Fire : Stories of Women in Philosophy. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003 9780742513839 |
| ISBN |
9781461666257 |
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1461666252 |
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