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Feminist Interpretations of Plato (Re-Reading the Canon)

by Nancy Tuana

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Table of Contents

Was Plato a feminist? / Gregory Vlastos — Plato, irony, and equality / Janet Farrell Smith — The politics of women's bodies / Monique Canto — The philosopher and the female in the political thought of Plato / Arlene W. Saxonhouse — Hairy cobblers and philosopher-queens / Elizabeth Spelman — Why women cannot rule / Natalie Harris Bluestone — The Platonic appropriation of reproduction / Page duBois — "Supposing truth were a woman" / Wendy Brown — Sorcerer love, a reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's speech / Luce Irigaray — Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium / Andrea Nye — Overcoming dualism / Cynthia Hampton — The presence and absence of the feminine in Plato's philosophy / Nancy Tuana and William Cowling.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780271010441
Other:
Tuana, Nancy
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Other:
Tuana, Nancy
Editor:
Tuana, Nancy
Location:
University Park, Pa. :
Subject:
Feminist theory
Subject:
Woman (Philosophy)
Subject:
Woman
Subject:
History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
Subject:
Plato
Series:
Re-reading the canon
Series Volume:
no. 17
Publication Date:
January 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
286
Dimensions:
890x608x88 102

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