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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
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