Stella Sandford is Professor in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. Her research focuses on plant philosophy and the relation between philosophy and botany, philosophy of natural history, philosophies of sex and gender and feminist philosophy and theory. She is the author of Plato and Sex (Polity, 2010), How to Read Beauvoir (Granta/Norton, 2006), The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas (Athlone/Continuum, 2000) and numerous articles and book chapters. Her most recent book is Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants (Bloomsbury 2022).
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