"Women's Work" As Political Art: Weaving And Dialectical Politics In Homer, Aristophanes, And Plato.HQ1075 2004-030990 0-7391-1063-2 "Women's work" as political art; weaving weaving, the art of forming a fabric by interlacing at right angles two or more sets of yarn or other material. It is one of the most ancient fundamental arts, as indicated by archaeological evidence. and dialectical di·a·lec·tic n. 1. The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments. 2. a. politics in Homer, Aristophanes, and Plato. Vetter, Lisa Pace. Lexington Books, [c]2005 178 p. $60.00 Looking closely at the metaphor of weaving, first in Plato then in other ancient Greek Noun 1. Ancient Greek - the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages works, Vetter (government, American U.) realized that weaving is fundamentally rooted in a dialectical, namely a conversational, approach to political life. Because weaving is associated with the domestic activity of women, she says, it is easy to see it as a simplifying corrective cor·rec·tive adj. Counteracting or modifying what is malfunctioning, undesirable, or injurious. n. An agent that corrects. corrective, n to the overly complicated political abstractions of men, but she shows how it actually preserves complexity and maintains both theory and practice in ways that are accessible and appealing to masculine and feminine concerns. Her quotations are in English. |
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