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In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls
head over little-black-heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy
and follows him--literally--to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday,
although she secretly worried about life without sushi, frothy
coffee drinks, and air conditioning. But with college diploma in
hand, it was time to put up or shut up. So with some ambivalence
she arrives at the Peace Corps office--sporting her best safari
chic attire --to casually look into the steps one might take if one
were to become a global humanitarian, a la Angelina Jolie. But when
Eve meets John, her dashing young Peace Corps recruiter, all her
ambivalence flies out the window. She absolutely "must" join the
Peace Corps--and win John's heart in the process. Off to Ecuador
she goes and--after a year in the jungle - back to the States she
runs, vowing to stay within easy reach of a decaf cappuccino for
the rest of her days.
But life had other plans. Just as she's getting reacquainted with
the joys of toilet paper, John gets a job with CARE, and Eve must
decide if she's up for life in another third-world outpost. Before
you can say, "pass the malaria prophylaxis," the couple heads off
to Uganda, and the fun really begins--if one can call having rats
in your toilet fun. Fortunately, in Eve's case one certainly can,
because, to her, every experience is an adventure to be embraced,
and these pages come alive with all of the alternatively poignant
and uproarious details.
With wit and candor, " First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria"
chronicles Eve's misadventures as an aspiring do-gooder. From
intestinal parasites to getting caught in a civil war, culture
clashes to unexpected friendships, here is an honest and
laugh-out-loud funny look at the search for love and purpose-from a
woman who finds both in the last place she expected to find them.
"These essays advance a reinterpretation of pivotal categories
such as self-knowing, moral agency, and altruism... A must for all
students and researchers/faculty engaged in the study of ethics."
Choice
"This is an extraordinarily valuable collection of essays in
feminist ethics." Teaching Philosophy
A range of recent work in feminist ethics, exploring such issues
as the ethic of care, a viable feminist ethics, Pythagoreanism,
existentialism, utilitarianism, self-knowing, emotion, and moral
vision. Also discussed is the process of applying feminist ethics
to work situations. The concluding essays point to the future and
present new visions for the field."
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the
exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished
academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in
philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is
engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives
of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present.
Karen Warren brings together 16 colleagues for a unique,
groundbreaking study of Western philosophy which combines pairs of
leading men and women philosophers over the past 2600 years,
acknowledging and evaluating their contributions to foundational
themes in philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, and
ethics. Introductory essays, primary source readings, and
commentaries comprise each chapter to offer a rich and accessible
introduction to and evaluation of these vital philosophical
contributions. A helpful appendix canvasses an extraordinary number
of women philosophers for further discovery and study.
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the
exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished
academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in
philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is
engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives
of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present.
Karen Warren brings together 16 colleagues for a unique,
groundbreaking study of Western philosophy which combines pairs of
leading men and women philosophers over the past 2600 years,
acknowledging and evaluating their contributions to foundational
themes in philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, and
ethics. Introductory essays, primary source readings, and
commentaries comprise each chapter to offer a rich and accessible
introduction to and evaluation of these vital philosophical
contributions. A helpful appendix canvasses an extraordinary number
of women philosophers for further discovery and study.
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