| Description |
xiv, 286 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Re-reading the canon |
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Re-reading the canon.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-274) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Plato.
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Woman (Philosophy)
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Feminist theory.
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| Added Author |
Tuana, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
0271010436 (acid-free paper) : $25.00 |
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0271010444 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $12.95 |
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