Vigdis Songe-Møller

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Vigdis Songe-Møller (born 1 April 1949) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen.

Songe-Møller's Philosophy without Women was a feminist exploration of ancient philosophy. Her own experience as a pregnant woman – for whom "the Parmenidean idea of all things existing ultimately as one and self-identical is, to say the least, far from self-evident" – led her to investigate connections between "the Greek philosophers' ideals of unity, self-identity and eternity and their attitudes towards sexuality, reproduction and sexual difference."[1]

Works[edit]

  • Philosophy without Women: the birth of sexism in Western thought, Continuum, 2002

References[edit]

  1. ^ Philosophy without Women, p. xiii-xiv