Classics & Feminism: Gendering the ClassicsStudies of the impact of modern feminism on the discipline and profession of classics in the United States. Combining a wide-ranging overview of historical and current developments with in-depth analysis and examples, the book has relevance for anyone interested in the role of feminism in the academy. Because the history of classics has been so deeply implicated in androcentric structures of knowledge and patriarchal social patterns, it illustrates with exceptional clarity many issues endemic to academic feminism as a whole. Provides an illuminating analysis of the complex gender performance demanded of academic women as disembodied scholars. Defines and illustrates the distinctive aspects of a feminist approach to scholarship and argues that gender analysis is crucially important in traditionally masculine areas as well as in the study of women. Explains the theoretical and methodological principles developed by feminist classical scholars seeking to recover information about women from scanty and scattered evidence filtered through centuries of patriarchal interpretation. 01 |
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... Aeneas by displacing them onto an epic figure , Juno , who will serve as a lightning rod for the neg- ative feminine energy that surges through the poem . However , this strategy does not totally distance Aeneas from the feminine ...
... Aeneas is superior in pietas ] , 11.291-92 . This passage not only praises Aeneas for highly masculine qual- ities but subtly suggests that pietas is the most masculine of all . Finally , Aeneas himself links his prowess with that of ...
... Aeneas's heroism : he is " not aggressive enough , not masculine enough , not driven to achieve the goals the gods have chosen for him " ( 118-19 ) . I have already noted how this reading prompted an explicit defense of Aeneas's ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
Copyright | |
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