Was Plato a Feminist?

HISTORYWritten by: Stewart LawrenceWas Plato, in some fashion or another, a feminist?  Two schools of thought have dominated this debate.  One school, comprising structuralists like Irigaray, and others, have answered the question with a resounding no. Plato is too steeped in the masculine universe of what constitutes politics and community to honor a woman’s unabashed…

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