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- From: "david meadows" <david.meadows@canrem.com>
- Subject: plato's views on women
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.3725.760@dosgate>
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:54:00 EST
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- While I heartily agree that feminist approaches to history, like any
- `ist' approach suffers from its having a predigested theoretical base
- into which evidence is hammered until it conforms, there have been some
- studies of Plato's views of women which might be useful:
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- M.L. Osborne, `Plato's Unchanging View of Women: A denial that Anatomy
- Spells Destiny' in Philosophical Forum 6 (1975), 447-452.
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- A.W. Saxonhouse, `The Philosopher and the Female in the Political
- Thought of Plato.' in Political Theory 4 (1976), 195-212
-
- You would also do well to look at the `standard': Sarah Pomeroy's
- Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves. Roger Just's recent Women in
- Athenian Law and Life also has a few pages devoted to Plato. You
- might also want to take a look at W.K Lacey's The Family in Classical
- Greece (Chapter 8). If you look at them all, you should get a good
- overview of Plato's views of women, both from a strictly feminist
- perspective and from a less radical one. Good luck.
-
- David Meadows
-
- David Meadows
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