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.
- ISBN10 1498542700
- ISBN13 9781498542708
- Publish Date 7 August 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lexington Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 248
- Language English