Description: 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.
Brief description: Cynthia A. Freeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston and also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication.
Review Quotes:
"Overall, the essays in this volume represent a welcome addition to the second wave of feminist criticism and reappraisal of Aristotelian thought on central concern to feminism such as biological and metaphysical essentialism, standpoint theory, the normativity of science, and feminist ethics and aesthetics."
--Julie Ward Hypatia