Dependent in the First Place

November 13th, 2025 | 6 min read

Leah Libresco Sargeant. The Dignity of Dependence. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. $28.00. 200 pp.

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Agnes Howard

Agnes R. Howard teaches in Christ College, the honors college at Valparaiso University. She is the author of Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human (Eerdmans, 2020) and Disoriented: Embodied Life in Strange Times (forthcoming, Cascade, 2026).

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