Feminist interpretations of Plato
By: edited by Nancy Tuana.
Contributors: Tuana, Nancy.
Series: Re-reading the canon
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Plato.; Woman (Philosophy); Feminist theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Was Plato a feminist? / Gregory Vlastos; title: Plato, irony, and equality / Janet Farrell Smith; title: The politics of women's bodies / Monique Canto; title: The philosopher and the female in the political thought of Plato / Arlene W. Saxonhouse; title: Hairy cobblers and philosopher-queens / Elizabeth Spelman; title: Why women cannot rule / Natalie Harris Bluestone; title: The Platonic appropriation of reproduction / Page duBois; title: "Supposing truth were a woman" / Wendy Brown; title: Sorcerer love, a reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's speech / Luce Irigaray; title: Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium / Andrea Nye; title: Overcoming dualism / Cynthia Hampton; title: The presence and absence of the feminine in Plato's philosophy / Nancy Tuana and William Cowling.