is unconditionally masculine and polis-centric. He has no interest in equality for the sake of woman's individual fulfillment. The Ideal State he envisions is one that would secure the greatest happiness for men like him. He fails to re-claim a marginalized, devalued, subordinated, silenced, subjugated, and repressed perspective on the human condition. The Ideal City fails to balance feminine and masculine elements. (differences between the sexes are reduced to their role in procreation) This society gives woman more sexual and academic freedom then Plato's contemporary states and perpetuates the idea that labor should not be based on gender but on ability, ideas that our society still struggles with. However, Plato's androcentric perspectives are deficient from the standpoint of feminists today. Equal right and responsibilities for women are not enough when "men" is center and "woman" is "other". Plato suggests the male as the norm that woman should confound to he de-values women and fails to recognize the female as a legitimate a norm as well. Traces of misogyny (and the idea of common ownership of woman), which are exhibited throughout the dialogues, reinforce the idea that in his proposition to change the status of woman, Plato aspired to liberate men from women instead of emancipating women. ...
