Sunday, April 29, 2007

Plato's Republic, works cited.

Plato (2003). The Republic, 375 B.C.E. (2nd ed.).
(D. Lee, Trans.). London, England: Penguin Books. (Original work published 1955).



Plato’s Republic and Feminism by Julia Annas
Philosophy © 1976 Royal Institute of Philosophy
Published by Cambridge University Press
Vol. 51, No. 197 (Jul., 1976), pp. 307-321


Plato’s Feminism by Harry Lesser
Philosophy © 1979 Royal Institute of Philosophy
Published by Cambridge University Press
Vol. 54, No. 207 (Jan., 1979), pp. 113-117


Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence by Catharine A MacKinnon
Signs © 1982 The University of Chicago Press
Vol. 7, No. 3, Feminist Theory (Spring, 1982), pp. 515-544


The Logical and the Real in Political Theory: Plato, Aristotle, and Marx by Charles N. R. McCoy
The American Political Science Review > Vol. 48, No. 4 (Dec., 1954), pp. 1058-1066

The Ethics of Communism
John Laird
Journal of Philosophical Studies > Vol. 3, No. 10 (Apr., 1928), pp. 198-212

Would Plato Have Approved of the National-Socialist State?
R. F. Alfred Hoernlé
Philosophy > Vol. 13, No. 50 (Apr., 1938), pp. 166-182

Gender and Justice in Plato by Steven Forde
The American Political Science Review > Vol. 91, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 657-670


Note: The impact of Plato on feminist theory cannot be overstated. Some will claim that feminists in no way, shape, or form, endorse Plato, nor subscribe to his totalitarian vision.

The intense scrutiny of his works by both feminists and leftists (who in reality, are one in the same) speaks volumes.

The following are additional titles that serious students can read on their own. I will not be including these works into my writings for the sake of brevity - Kumogakure.


Bar On, Bat-Ami, ed. Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings of Plato and Aristotle. SUNY Press, 1994.

Bluestone, Natalie Harris. Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's Republic and Modern Myths of Gender. Univ. of massachusetts Press, 1987.

Buchan, Morag. Women in Plato's Political Theory. Routledge, 1998.

Cavarero, Adriana. In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. 1995.

Freeland, Cynthia A., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. Penn State Univ. Press, 1998.

Scruton, Roger, ed. Xanthippic Dialogues. St. Augustine's Press, 1998.

Tuana, Nancy, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Plato. Penn State Univ. Press, 1994.

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