A review by libbykerns
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna

medium-paced

3.0

as an introduction to some women philosophers i hadn’t read previously, this was an interesting read—but i didn’t find it particularly compelling as a memoir… both because i didn’t feel particularly bad for the author (blatantly and infuriatingly misogynistic treatment notwithstanding, she came across as a self-interested and self-centered person who i didn’t particularly like). also, i didn’t entirely trust her reading of the women philosophers she discussed, as she brushed away/by their religious thoughts even as she acknowledged those angles of thought as significant to the women themselves. (this is reminiscent of a larger trend in philosophy and academia that i find irksome, and not necessarily only a fault of this author.) 
that said, i look forward to doing my own reading on some of these women—and am therefore glad to have read this book, even if it didn’t quite deliver in the way i’d hoped it would. an intellectual memoir is delicious, but the elements need to be well-integrated.