Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

by Adriana Cavarero

Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. In that work Cavarero--as political theorist, philosopher, classicist, and close reader--examines literary and philosophical texts from Greek antiquity to modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472066749
• ISBN13: 9780472066742
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 9.2"