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Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum, a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, is the author of numerous books, most recently Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Harvard University Press). She is also the author of Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton).

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  • Legal Weapon

    July 13, 2006

    International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the hypocrisy of not extending the same protection to women.

  • In a Lonely Place

    February 9, 2006

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton's legacy as both an admirable revolutionary and a profound thinker is brought to life in Vivian Gornick's The Solitude of Self.

2005

  • Epistemology of the Closet

    May 19, 2005

    A biography of Utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick sheds new light on life in the Victorian era.

2002

2001

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