An Aristotelian feminism. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah Borden Sharkey.
• Authors: Borden, Sarah R
• Contents: Introduction; Summary of Chapters; What Is Meant by 'Aristotelian Feminism'; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Nussbaum, Capabilities, and Biology; Nussbaum's 'Aristotelian Feminism'; A Summary of Her 'Capabilities Approach'; The Capabilities Approach as Aristotelian; The Capabilities Approach as Feminist; The Role of Biology in an Aristotelian Feminism; Reasons for Downplaying Biological Differences; Reasons Not to Downplay Biological Differences or Uncritically Embrace Constructivism; Qualifying Note; Firestone's Radical Feminism; Conclusion Chapter 2: An Aristotelian Account of Sex and Gender General Aristotelian Picture of Human Beings; Matter; Form; An Aristotelian Account of Women and Men; On the Terms Sex and Gender; Application to the Question of Sex; Application to the Question of Gender; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Possibilities Beyond the Bare-Bones; Summary of Position; One: General Scientific, Metaphysical, and Methodological Questions; What of Our Biological Matter Is Sexually Differentiated?; What Type of Hylomorphism Should Be Accepted?; Two: The Nature of Influence Is Biological Matter a Motive, Incentive, or Condition of Development? Aristotelian Causality, Re-Stating the Previous Question in More Aristotelian Language; Three: How Might Biological Matter Influence?; Does Biological Matter Influence the Pattern of How a Particular Faculty Is Developed?; Does Biological Matter Influence the Order in Which Our Faculties Are Developed?; Does Biological Matter Influence the Subjects Toward Which Our Faculties Are Turned?; Does Biological Matter Influence the Combination of Faculties Employed When Turning to a Common Subject?; A Spectrum of Positions Four: Questions About the Human Capacities? What Are Our Capacities?; How Are Our Capacities Related?; A Note on Aristotle's and Nussbaum's Aristotelian Ideals; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Why Aristotle Was Not a Feminist; The Female in Human Generation, and Subsequent Tendencies in Females; Generation; A Qualification ("As It Were" Deformities); The Female's Role in the Sex of the Offspring; Women's Natural Qualities; Women's Inferiority in Rationality; Women's Inferiority in Virtue; Digressions on 'Natural Slaves' and Impressive Women; The Challenges of Hylomorphism Generation as a Substantial Change Differing Physical Expressions of a Common Form; Epistemology and Examples; Ancient Women's Lives: Athens Versus Sparta; Conclusion; Chapter 5: How Aristotle Might Have Become a Feminist; A Tension in Aristotle's Account; Problems with Aristotle's Account of Generation; On Male and Female as Opposites; A Range of Appropriate Expressions; The Role of Social Conditions; Other Modifications; Development of Interpersonal Abilities; Virtues of 'Acknowledged Dependence' and Receptivity; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Women and the Universities
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 185; Philosophy; Feminist theory; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Feminist theory; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Metaphysics; Sociology; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319298474
• Related ISBNs: 331929847X; 3319298461; 9783319298467
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 25, 2016).
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