| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 223 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index. |
| Contents |
The action of the argument -- The drama of Glaucon's aporia -- The conflict of Thumos and Eros in the hunt -- Taming the hunting women -- Women and men, exercising naked, together -- Hera, Artemis, and the political problem of privacy -- Socrates' proposal of robes of virtue -- The tragedy of the philosopher-king -- Woman is a political animal. |
| Summary |
In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position--a vision full of concern not only for the human community, but for the desires of women themselves. --! From back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. Republic.
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Republic (Plato) |
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Sex role -- Philosophy.
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Sex role -- Philosophy. |
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Sex role. |
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Women -- Political activity -- Philosophy.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical. |
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Gender roles. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Woman question in Plato's Republic. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 1498542697 (DLC) 2017278454 |
| ISBN |
9781498542708 (ebook) |
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1498542700 |
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1498542697 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9781498542692 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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