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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Aristotle on Sexual Difference 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations 14 Translations 16 Introduction: The Philosophical Problem of Sexual Difference 20 1. Precursors to Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Difference 28 1.1 Why are there two sexes? 28 1.2 The origin of the sexes 30 1.2.1 Introduction to the questions 30 1.2.2 The origins of the two sexes 32 1.2.2.1 Hesiod 32 1.2.2.2 Empedocles 33 1.2.2.3 Plato 36 1.2.2.4 Sexual difference, sexual reproduction, and matter 40 1.3 The assessment of women as inferior or flawed 43 1.3.1 Introduction 43 1.3.2 Female as even 44 1.3.3 Female as unlimited 45 1.3.4 Female as moist 46 1.3.5 Female as left 48 1.3.6 Moral failings of women 50 1.4 The biology of sexual difference 53 1.4.1 The sexed body as a biological phenomenon 53 1.4.2 The role of male and female in reproduction 56 1.4.3 The determination of sex in the embryo 60 1.5 Sexual difference in the political context 64 1.5.1 The legal status of women in Athens 65 1.5.2 Aristophanes 66 1.5.3 Socrates 68 1.5.4 Comparison of Aristophanes and Socrates 70 1.5.5 Interpreting the Socratic proposals 71 1.5.6 The question of women as a g

Author

Marguerite Deslauriers;

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