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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
A collection of one hundred short thought experiments, each set out in a page or so and followed by a brief discussion. The title case comes from Douglas…
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The Politics of Reality
A collection of nine essays in feminist theory, written from a lesbian feminist standpoint. The opening essay, 'Oppression', is the most widely read. Frye distinguishes oppression from ordinary…
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
A work of moral and social philosophy that asks what misogyny is and why it persists in societies that officially accept equality. Manne rejects the 'naive conception' of…
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The Right to Sex
A collection of six essays, subtitled Feminism in the Twenty-First Century; the title essay first appeared in the London Review of Books in 2018. 'The Conspiracy Against Men'…
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Sister Outsider
A collection of essays and speeches written between 1976 and 1984 by the poet who described herself as Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. Several pieces are among the…
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Braiding Sweetgrass
A collection of essays, subtitled Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by a botanist who is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The…
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The American Evasion of Philosophy
A history of American pragmatism, subtitled A Genealogy of Pragmatism, by the American philosopher and public intellectual Cornel West. West argues that pragmatism evades the central concerns of…
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Black Elk Speaks
The life story of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota holy man, as told in 1931 to the Nebraska poet John G. Neihardt through Black Elk's son Ben as…
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Existentia Africana
An introduction to Africana existential thought, subtitled Understanding Africana Existential Thought, by a Jamaican-born American philosopher. Gordon argues that the philosophy of existence in the African diaspora grows…
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How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova
A posthumous collection of essays by Viola Cordova, of Jicarilla Apache and Hispanic descent and the first Native American woman to earn a PhD in philosophy. She died…
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