Abstract
This article tries to read Hegel’s theory of recognition in the light of a feminist perspective. It shows that when Hegel developed his theory of recognition in Jena, he payed great attention to the issue of the relationship between men and women. Then the article interests in the recognition between persons of different sexes in Hegel’s philosophy of history, stressing particularly on Hegel’s analysis of the Greek city in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Finally it draws the consequences of a feminist reading of Hegel’s conception of recognition.