Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy, and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. Italy's most renowned feminist philosopher, she is the author of numerous essays and books, including (in English)" In Spite of Plato "(1995)," Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood "(2000), and" Stately Bodies "(2002).