Feminist Interpretations of Plato

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).

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I Plato on Women1. Gregory Vlastos/Was Plato a Feminist?2. Janet Farrell Smith/Plato, Irony, and Equality3. Monique Canto/The Politics of Women's Bodies: Reflections on Plato (translated by Arthur Goldhammer)4. Arlene W. Saxonhouse/The Philosopher and the Female in the Political Thought of Plato5. Elizabeth Spelman/Hairy Cobblers and Philosopher-Queens6. Natalie Harris Bluestone/Why Women Cannot Rule: Sexism in Plato ScholarshipPart II Plato and the Feminine7. Page duBois/The Platonic Appropriation of Reproduction8. Wendy Brown/"Supposing Truth Were A Women. . .": Plato's Subversion of Masculine Discourse9. Luce Irigaray/Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech (translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall)10. Andrea Nye/Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium11. Cynthia Hampton/Overcoming Dualism: The Importance of the Intermediate in Plato's Philebus12. Nancy Tuana and William Cowling/The Presence and Absence of the Feminine in Plato's PhilosophySelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex