When looking at feminist literature of ancient Greek philosophers there seems to be a
recurring question. That question is, “Was Plato a feminist?”. According to The Dictionary
of Feminist Theory a feminist is “both a doctrine of equal rights for women and an ideology
of social transformation aiming to create for women beyond simple society equality”. At the very
least a feminist is someone who believes in treating women and men as equals. A feminist
believes that society from which Plato was writing, even thinking of women as equal to men
would have been radical at that time.
One should look very closely at the society that Plato lived in. Women in Plato’s Athens
were not treated with very much respect or conside
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