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

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

Le Doeuff, Michele
Selous, Trista

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PhilosophyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0231138954
ISBN13: 9780231138956
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

To be a philosopher and to be a feminist are one and the same thing. A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.-from Hipparchia's Choice

A work of rare insight and irreverence, Hipparchia's Choice boldly recasts the history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-Derrideans as one of masculine texts and male problems. The position of women, therefore, is less the result of a hypothetical femininity and more the fault of exclusion by men. Nevertheless, women have been and continue to be drawn to the exercise of thought. So how does a female philosopher become a conceptually adventurous woman? Focusing on the work of Sartre and Beauvoir (specifically, his sexism and her relation to it), Michèle Le Doeuff shows how women philosophers can reclaim a place for feminist concerns. Is The Second Sex a work of philosophy, and, if so, what can it teach us about the relation of philosophy to experience? Now with a new epilogue, Hipparchia's Choice points the way toward a discipline that is accountable to history, feminism, and society.

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