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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind

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A critique of the assumptions the mind makes, of how humans tend to categorize objects and ideas, and of the implications of these modes of thought.

"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning that I have ever read. It . . . has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences. Lakoff's book is a tremendous piece of scholarship and an intellectual achievement of the first ...