Times Higher Education summer reads 2016
Members of the higher education community tell us about two books they
plan to take on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of a second look
Deborah Cameron
Professor of language and communication, University of Oxford
I’m
about to embark on a project that involves revisiting the classic texts of
second-wave feminism, and I’m planning to begin with a book I haven’t read
since I was 20: Shulamith Firestone’s The
Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, an ambitious
attempt at what its author called “a materialist view of history based on sex
itself”. My new book is The
Best I Can Do(degree zero), a collection of short essays in which
the philosopher-turned-stamp-dealer Trevor Pateman reflects on everything from
bus passes to the semiotics of lipstick – and whether scholarship should be a
hobby rather than a salaried occupation.
THE, 14 July 2016
