Philosophical Conceptions and Representations of the Feminine: Contributions Towards a Critical Hermeneutics of the Philosophical Tradition

Drawing upon an extensive bibliography concerning the role of women in Western culture, this article aims to deconstruct the common idea that male domination was always peacefully and universally accepted. Thus, it calls attention to the fact that in Greece (where our tradition conceptually originat...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rccsar,
Egile nagusia: Henriques, Fernanda
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: RCCS Annual Review 2013
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Drawing upon an extensive bibliography concerning the role of women in Western culture, this article aims to deconstruct the common idea that male domination was always peacefully and universally accepted. Thus, it calls attention to the fact that in Greece (where our tradition conceptually originated), parallel to the established canon of thought, there were significant disruptions revealing other ways of conceiving and representing the feminine, thereby demonstrating the need to re-signify our reception of the classical tradition.