Philosophy Without Women - The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought (Paperback)

For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of western culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Songe-M-|ller shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind.