Contents

Introduction to the 2013 Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	3
PART I. PLATO
1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny	15
2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives	28
3. Female Nature and Social Structure	51
PART II. ARISTOTLE
4. Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World	73
PART III. ROUSSEAU
5. Rousseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition	99
6. The Natural Woman and Her Role	106
7. Equality and Freedom—for Men	140
8. The Fate of Rousseau’s Heroines	167
PART IV. MILL
9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist	197
PART V. FUNCTIONALISM, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY
10. Women and Functionalism, Past and Present	233
11. Persons, Women, and the Law	247
12. Conclusions	274
Appendix to Chapter 2	305
Afterword to the 1992 edition	309
Notes	341
Bibliography	387
Index	399