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# Gender in the Ancient World (Greece) (References)
**Dayton 2013, HIST5505꞉ Gender in the Early Modern West**
- Mary E. Fissell, “Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in _Aristotle’s Masterpiece_,” _WMQ_ 3rd ser., 60 (2003), 43-74
**Walker 2022, GPHI6698꞉ Enlightened Exchanges**
- Plato, **Symposium,** 199d-212b
- Margaret Urban Walker, “Diotima’s Ghost: The uncertain place of feminist philosophy in professional philosophy,” Hypatia, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2005, pp. 153-65.
- Hilary Ilkay, “For Diotima Lives: Reclaiming the Female Philosopher,” M.A. Thesis, New School for Social Research, 2017, and “Women’s Epistemological Authority: Diotima” (2018)
- Aristotle, _Nicomachean Ethics_, Books VIII & IX. Link on Canvas.
- [Adriana Cavarero,](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3Drdr_ext_aut?_encoding=UTF8&index=books&field-author=Adriana%20Cavarero) [Rosi Braidotti](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3Drdr_ext_aut?_encoding=UTF8&index=books&field-author=Rosi%20Braidotti), “Diotima,” _In Spite of Plato_ (1990, trans. 1995). Canvas.
- [Angela Hobbs,](https://philpapers.org/s/Angela%20Hobbs) “Female Imagery in Plato,” in J. H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee C. C. Sheffield (eds.), [_Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception_](https://philpapers.org/rec/LESPSI). Harvard University Press. pp. 252--71 (2006). Canvas.
**Scott 2021, RWSG꞉ Patriarchy꞉ Where it Came from and How to Smash it**
- Sam Deaderick & Tamara Turner, “Homosexuality in Antiquity” in _Gay Resistance: The Hidden History_, pp 9-19
**Ramnath 2022, Kinship꞉ Feminist Theories of Race & Reproduction Syllabus**
- Butler, Judith. Promiscuous Obedience. In _Antigone’s Claim : Kinship between Life and Death_, 57–82. The Wellek Library Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
**Dayton 2013, HIST5505꞉ Gender in the Early Modern West**
- Thomas Lacquer, _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud_ (1990)
- Laqueur’s _Making Sex_, ch. 1-2, 3 (quick read w/ special attention on pp. 69, 82, 88, 98-99). ch.5 (pp. 149-63), ch.6 (pp. 193-207; 243).
- For medieval thought on the subject (scarcely and inaccurately treated by Laqueur), see Joan Cadden, Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
- For a revision of Laqueur's treatment of ancient authorities, see Helen King, "The Mathematics of Sex: One to Two or Two to One," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser., 2 (2005): 47-58.
- See also Gisela Bock's trenchant comments on the dangers of relying on biology in her "Women's History and Gender History."