Description: Adriel M. Trott argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics. Responding to feminist critiques from Judith Butler and Luce Irigary, she She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution - and the female - on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.
Brief description: Adriel Trott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wabash College. She is the author of Aristotle on the Nature of Community (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Review Quotes: Adriel M. Trott's book skillfully and exhaustively places Aristotle's theory of animal generation and his account of inherited characteristics in its literary and philosophical context to develop an enmattered account of form and an active account of matter that challenges the artifactual interpretation of hylomorphism and, with it, the grounds for many feminist criticisms of Aristotle's metaphysics as gendered and sexist-- "Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire"