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Feminist Interpretations of Plato

300 pages | 6 x 9 | 1994

Cloth edition is not available

ISBN 978-0-271-01044-1 | paper: $28.95 sh

Re-Reading the Canon Series


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The essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosophy and are representative of the variety of perspectives within feminist criticism. The essays in the first section focus primarily on Plato's social and political theory, and in particular the place of women within the state. The second section concentrates on examining the role of the feminine within Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. Tuana introduces both sections and a detailed bibliography is included.


Nancy Tuana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of several books, including most recently The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature (Indiana, 1993).


Contents

Part One: Plato on Women

Was Plato a Feminist?
Gregory Vlastos

Plato, Irony, and Equality
Janet Farrell Smith

The Politics of Women's Bodies: Reflections on Plato (translated by Arthur Goldhammer)
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: Sexism in Plato Scholarship
Natalie Harris Bluestone

Part Two: Plato and the Feminine

The Platonic Appropriation of Reproduction
Page duBois

"Supposing Truth Were A Women. . .": Plato's Subversion of Masculine Discourse
Wendy Brown

Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech
Luce Irigaray (translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall)

Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium
Andrea Nye

Overcoming Dualism: The Importance of the Intermediate in Plato's Philebus
Cynthia Hampton

The Presence and Absence of the Feminine in Plato's Philosophy
Nancy Tuana and William Cowling