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The feminine symptom : aleatory matter in the Aristotelian cosmos /

The Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring for Aristotle: If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process. This inexplicable but nec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bianchi, Emanuela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aristotelian causation, reproduction, and accident and chance
  • Necessity and Automaton: aleatory matter and the feminine symptom
  • The errant feminine in Plato's Timaeus
  • The physics of sexual different in Aristotle and Irigaray
  • Motion and gender in the Aristotelian cosmos
  • Sexual difference in potentiality and actuality
  • Coda: matters arising: from the aleatory feminine to aleatory feminism.