Adriana Cavarero

Italian philosopher and feminist thinker (born 1974) Adriana Cavarero (born 1947) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona.[citation needed] She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard.[citation needed] Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on theories of narration and on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and literature.[citation needed] Biography Cavarero was born in Bra, Italy and educated at the University of Padua, where she wrote a thesis on philosophy and poetry in 1971. In 1983 she left Padua for the University of Verona, where she was co-founder of Diotima – a group dedicated to feminist philosophy as political engagement.[citation needed] Trained in ancient philosophy – with a special focus on the writings of Plato – and inspired by feminist philosopher, Luce Irigaray, Cavarero first drew wide attention with her book, In Spite