Fiona Haines
Ashgate
Hardback
220
2005
While some feminists seek to use ideas of the 'universal human subject' to include women others argue that such ideas are intrinsically masculine and exclude the feminine. This book analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle Descartes Hobbes and Kant regard human beings and their capacities.