Aristotle subordinated women to men and rhetoric to logic. Moreover, his logic was masculinistic.

Now, what if Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric was, inherently, not very logical, not very manish (by his male-superior conception)?
Click here to read the Rhetoric in Greek. (Click here to get a list of Greek words).

But how logical, how masculinist, are all of our English translations!
How neither very rhetorical nor very feministic are these translations!
Click here to read English translations of the ancient Greek!

• the 1991 (and 2007) translation of rhetorician George A. Kennedy.
• the 1991 translation of classicist Hugh Lawson-Tancred.
• the 1960 translation of Lane Cooper.
  
• the 1954 translation of classicist W. Rhys Roberts.
• the 1926 translation of John H. Freese.
• the 1908 translation of Richard Claverhouse Jebb.
• the 1890 translation of Thomas Hobbes.
• the 1889 translation of James Edward Cowell Welldon.
• the 1823 translation of John Gillies.
• the 1818 translation of Thomas Taylor.
• the 1686 version "made English by the Translators of the Art of Thinking".

So, then, what if the Greek of Aristotle's Rhetoric were translated into English feministically?

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