Elizabeth V. Spelman, Author Beacon Press (MA) $0 (221p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6744-4
Much of mainstream feminism focuses on white, middle-class women. Spelman, in a brilliant, scholarly rethinking of feminist thought, traces the roots of this tendency to Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Nancy Chodorow, Shulamith Firestone and...
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Elizabeth V. Spelman, Author Beacon Press (MA) $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1420-2
Suffering is endemic to the human condition, and tragic suffering is universal, not because it happens to everyone but because it could happen to anyone. So writes Spelman, a professor of philosophy at Smith College and author of Inessential Woman,...
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Elizabeth V. Spelman, Author, Howard Bryant, Author Beacon Press $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6745-1
Much of mainstream feminism focuses on white, middle-class women. Spelman, in what PW termed ``a brilliant, scholarly rethinking of feminist thought,'' traces the roots of this tendency to ignore the interplay of racial, class, cultural and ethnic...
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