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Did Aristotle Really Say that Women Are Deformed?

Summary by Denny Burk
Aristotle has regularly been pilloried by modern writers (and especially feminists) for saying that “The female is as it were a deformed male.”1 New feminist Prudence Allen, for example, argues that this statement from Aristotle among many others renders him morally retrograde in his views on women.2 It may be the case that he is guilty as charged. I do not intend to adjudicate that point. I do wonder, however, if his statement about women being…
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Denny Burk broke the news in on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
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