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The woman question in Plato's Republic / Mary Townsend.
Van Pelt Library PA4279.R7 T69 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townsend, Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Republic.
- Plato.
- Republic (Plato).
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- In this resource, 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 justice, but for the desires of women themselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1498542697
- 9781498542692
- OCLC:
- 983557451
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