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Elizabeth Spelman

Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.

Selected bibliography

  • Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World (2002)
  • Fruits of Sorrow: Framing our Attention to Suffering (1997)
  • Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (1990)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Room for the Lambs · 26 January 2006

subscriber-only content Assertrix · 19 February 2004

subscriber-only content Sock it to me · 9 October 2003

  • Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett

How do they see you? · 16 November 2000

  • Sex and Social Justice by Martha Nussbaum
  • Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach by Martha Nussbaum

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Plumping up Philosophy with the Lipids of Desire · 30 March 2000

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