Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and AristotleBat-Ami Bar On This book introduces feminist voices into the study of Platonic and Aristotelian texts that modern Western philosophy has treated as foundational. The book concerns the extent to which Platonic and Aristotelian texts are (un)redeemably sexist, masculinist, or phallocentric. |
Contents
Hairy Cobblers and PhilosopherQueens | 3 |
Eros and Epistemology | 25 |
Plato and Dualism Judith Geneva | 41 |
The Importance of the Intermediate in Platos Philebus | 53 |
Diotima Speaks Through the Body Susan Hawthorne | 83 |
Aristotle | 97 |
Whos Who in the Polis | 99 |
Women Slaves and Love of Toil in Aristotles Moral Philosophy | 127 |
A Feminist Reading of Aristotelian Science | 145 |
Aristotle and the Politics of Reproduction | 189 |
Women Deliberation and Nature | 207 |
Aristotle on the Womans Soul | 223 |
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Contributors | 241 |
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Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and Aristotle Bat-Ami Bar On Limited preview - 1994 |
Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and Aristotle Bat-Ami Bar On Limited preview - 1993 |
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