Womankind

EDUCATION AND IDENTITY

“We only think when confronted by a problem.”
— John Dewey

One morning in the early 1970s, a young Irish American from South Boston, who was studying philosophy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, knocked on his teacher’s door. Philosopher Jane Roland Martin opened the door to the news that her

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