De essays verkennen het volledige spectrum van de filosofie van Plato en geven de diverse feministische invalshoeken weer. Het eerste gedeelte behandelt de sociale en politieke theorie van Plato. Het tweede gedeelte onderzoekt de rol van het vrouwelijke in Plato's metafysica en epistemologie. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Was Plato a feminist? / Gregory Vlastos: Plato, irony, and equality / Janet Farrell Smith: The politics of women's bodies: reflections on Plato / Monique Canto, translated by Arthur Goldhammer: The philosopher and the female in the political thought of Plato / Arlene W. Saxonhouse: Hairy cobblers and philosopher-queens / Elizabeth V. Spelman: Why women cannot rule: sexism in Plato scholarschip / Natalie Harris Bluestone: The Platonic appropriation of reproduction / Page duBois: 'Supposing truth were a woman...': Plato's subversion of masculine discourse / Wendy Brown: Sorcerer love: a reading of Plato's 'Symposium', Diotima's speech / Luce Irigaray, translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall: Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's symposium / Andrea Nye: Overcoming dualism: the importance of the intermediate in Plato's 'Philebus' / Cynthia Hampton: The presence of absence of the feminine in Plato's philosophy / Nancy Tuana and William Cowling.