It is not Plato but Bordo’s account that makes the world-soul female.

Evidence

Plato nowhere treats the soul of the world as female or ascribes feminine characteristics to it. He refers in the Timaeus to the entire living being of the ensouled world as a ‘blessed god’, not a goddess. Such a treatment of the world-soul as female would be badly out of step with Plato’s consistently stressed view of the female type and elements of soul as inferior to the male (Spelman 1988:29–31), and with the rest of Plato’s views on the female and the feminine. It would be in conflict also with the leading metaphor of Plato’s cosmology in the Timaeus, that of rational male form (cosmos) ruling irrational female matter (chaos). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 286

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying against the Timaeus text: whether the female matter/male form ruling metaphor fully supports Plumwood’s reading.
• XREF: connects to: Plato’s subordination targets the feminine as a category, not actual women — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 297