Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation

A groundbreaking exploration of sexual violence by one of our most celebrated experts in law and philosophy.

In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as things to one’s own benefit—like other forms of exploitation, they are rooted in the ugly emotion of pride. She exposes three “Citadels of Pride” and the men who hoard power at the apex of...