Aristotle on the Matter of Form - ? Feminist Metaphysics of Generation

Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle’s work on a craft model, which implies that matter has no power of its own. Instead, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques. She finds resources for thinking the female’s contribution – and the female – on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.