NEOPLATONISM AND GENDER: Women and the Female in Neoplatonism. (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 30.) Pp. xiv + 312. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €135. ISBN: 978-90-04-51046-3

The thirteen essays in this volume range from documentation of the historical presence of women in Neoplatonic schools and texts (the first section of the book) to the status of women in Neoplatonic socio-political theory and to female principles in Neoplatonic metaphysics and science (in the second and third sections of the book). Throughout the volume readers will find that every possible textual context has been mined in the service of documenting the historical presence, the ideas and positions, and the female as principle, all present in Neoplatonist writings. According to Proclus, women's education in virtue, qualifying them for a political role, had to do with their possession of political virtues, considered by Plotinus and Iamblichus to be of less value than the highest virtues, but still a positive characteristic. The volume under review presents much evidence that Neoplatonist texts advanced the position of women, certainly in efforts to establish equal virtues in male and female philosophers and to make their presence as philosophers evident.