Women in Philosophy

by Katrina Hutchison

Book Overview

Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the question of why philosophy continues to be inhospitable to women and what can be done to change it. By examining the social and institutional conditions of contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglophone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019932560X
• ISBN13: 9780199325603
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"