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  • Author: Jacqueline Broad

Ten things you may not know about women and liberty

By Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen

Imagine that you’re a married woman living in a bleak dystopian world in which you’re barred from higher education, you’re forbidden from owning your own property, you have no freedom of movement outside your own home, and your husband might sexually assault you at any time, with impunity.

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Women in the history of philosophy

By Jacqueline Broad

For the most part, the practice of philosophy tends to be collective and conversational and collaborative. We enjoy reading what others have written on a given topic, and we like to hear what others have to say, because different people see things differently.

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