Hipparchia's Choice An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc

Name: Hipparchia's Choice An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc
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ISBN: 9780231138949

ISBN-10: 0231138946

ISBN-13: 9780231138949

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michele Le Doeuff, Trista Selous

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In this acclaimed work, Michle Le Doeuff takes on the history of philosophy, viewing it as a history of masculine texts and male problems and questioning its social and legislative conclusions. She believes the position of women in philosophy is a question of exclusion by men rather than, as some suggest, of a hypothetically imminant "femininity." Nevertheless, women have been and are drawn to philosophy, and through an examination of the work of Sartre and de Beauvoir, Le Doeuff considers how women can reclaim a place for feminist concerns within the discipline. Is The Second Sex a work of philosophy, and, if so, what can it teach us about the relation of philosophy to experience? How can…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.96" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Michï¿½le Le Doeuff is a director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She is also the author of The Philosophical Imaginaryand The Sex of Knowing.