An Aristotelian Feminism

An Aristotelian Feminism
Title An Aristotelian Feminism PDF eBook
Author Sarah Borden Sharkey
Publisher Springer
Pages 177
Release 2016-08-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 331929847X

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This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition. The author shows how Aristotle’s metaphysics can be used to articulate a particularly subtle and theoretically powerful understanding of gender that may offer a highly useful tool for distinctively feminist arguments. This work builds on Martha Nussbaum’s ‘capabilities approach’ in a more explicitly and thoroughly hylomorphist way. The author shows how Aristotle’s hylomorphic model, developed to run between the extremes of Platonic dualism and Democritean atomism, can similarly be used today to articulate a view of gender that takes bodily differences seriously without reducing gender to biological determinations. Although written for theorists, this scholarly yet accessible book can be used to address more practical issues and the final chapter explores women in universities as one example. This book will appeal to both feminists with limited familiarity with Aristotle’s philosophy, and scholars of Aristotle with limited familiarity with feminism.

Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle

Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Title Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle PDF eBook
Author Cynthia A. Freeland
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 388
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780271043845

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Aristotle still influences our abstract thinking, our search for principles, and our reflections on virtue, nature, essence, and sexual difference. Feminists here concede that they too philosophize within the tradition founded by the ancient Greeks. The contributors to this volume enter into new, creative, and subtle dimensions of inquiry about Aristotle from a broader feminist perspective.

Aristotle on Female Animals

Aristotle on Female Animals
Title Aristotle on Female Animals PDF eBook
Author Sophia M. Connell
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 455
Release 2016-01-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 110713630X

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Analyses the female in Aristotle's biology, leading to a reassessment of his hylomorphism, scientific methodology and psychology.

The Concept of Woman

The Concept of Woman
Title The Concept of Woman PDF eBook
Author Prudence Allen
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 570
Release 1997
Genre Femininity (Philosophy)
ISBN 9780802833464

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The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. Volume I uncovers four general categories of questions asked by philosophers for two thousand years. These are the categories of opposites, of generation, of wisdom, and of virtue. Sister Prudence Allen traces several recurring strands of sexual and gender identity within this period. Ultimately, she shows the paradoxical influence of Aristotle on the question of woman and on a philosophical understanding of sexual coomplemenarity. Supplemented throughout with helpful charts, diagrams, and illustrations, this volume will be an important resource for scholars and students in the fields of women's studies, philosophy, history, theology, literary studies, and political science. In Volume 2, Sister Prudence Allen explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Touching on the thought of every philosopher who considered sex or gender identity between A.D. 1250 and 1500, The Concept of Woman provides the analytical categories necessary for situating contemporary discussion of women in relation to men. Adding to the accessibility of this fine discussion are informative illustrations, helpful summary charts, and extracts of original source material (some not previously available in English). In her third and final volume Allen covers the years 1500--2015, continuing her chronological approach to individual authors and also offering systematic arguments to defend certain philosophical positions over against others.

The Feminine Symptom

The Feminine Symptom
Title The Feminine Symptom PDF eBook
Author Emanuela Bianchi
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 420
Release 2014-09-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0823262200

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The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring. If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process. This inexplicable but necessary coincidence—sumptoma in Greek—defines the feminine symptom. Departing from the standard associations of male-activity-form and female-passivity-matter, Bianchi traces the operation of chance and spontaneity throughout Aristotle’s biology, physics, cosmology, and metaphysics and argues that it is not passive but aleatory matter— unpredictable, ungovernable, and acting against nature and teleology—that he continually allies with the feminine. Aristotle’s pervasive disparagement of the female as a mild form of monstrosity thus works to shore up his polemic against the aleatory and to consolidate patriarchal teleology in the face of atomism and Empedocleanism. Bianchi concludes by connecting her analysis to recent biological and materialist political thinking, and makes the case for a new, antiessentialist politics of aleatory feminism.

The Impossibility of Perfection

The Impossibility of Perfection
Title The Impossibility of Perfection PDF eBook
Author Michael Slote
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 178
Release 2011-08-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199790825

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The book utilizes feminist thought and other philosophical considerations to argue in a unique way for an ethical picture of human life that stands in marked contrast with traditional understandings. Slote here revives Isaiah Berlin's bold views on the impossibility of perfection in ways that no one has previously attempted. The Appendix describes a new kind of philosophical/ethical methodology that combines and balances (traditionally) "feminine" and "masculine" elements.

Feminist Interpretations of John Locke

Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
Title Feminist Interpretations of John Locke PDF eBook
Author Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 352
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780271046921

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