Women's Work as Political Art: Weaving and Dialectical Politics in Homer, Aristophanes, and Plato

by Lisa Pace Vetter

"Women's Work" as Political Art traces the evolution of weaving as metaphor in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo. This figurative technique represents a dialectical approach to politics that combines disparate individuals within a greater community through philosophic inquiry. Expanding on feminist theorists such as Martha Nussbaum, Lisa Pace Vetter argues that in these works, the metaphor of the traditionally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739110632
• ISBN13: 9780739110638
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"