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Feminism and Ancient Philosophy

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xxiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm

This book studies the representation of women in the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and considers the effect on feminism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and indexes

Plato's Republic and feminism / Julie Annas -- Women's nature and role in the ideal polis : Republic V revisited / Susan B. Levin -- The metaphysical science of Aristotle's Generation of animals and its feminist critics / Daryl McGowan Tress -- Sexual inequality in Aristotle's theories of reproduction and inheritance / Kathleen C. Cook -- The Stoics on women / Elizabeth Asmis -- Aristotelian resources for feminist thinking / Deborah Achtenberg -- Feminism and Aristotle's rational ideal / Marcia Homiak -- Aristotelian visions of moral character in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway / Patricia Curd -- Aristotle on Philia : the beginning of a feminist ideal of friendship [between women]? / Julie K. Ward [PDF pp. 180-200] -- Diotima tells Socrates a story : a narrative analysis of Plato's Symposium / Anne-Marie Bowery -- Therapeutic arguments and structures of desire / Martha Nussbaum