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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... Athenian women and Athenian slaves , the belief remains common that this study is discrete from the study of politics : though contemporary interest in social history has led more and more scholars to focus their research on Athenian ...
... Athenian democracy do indeed include the requisite statement " deploring " the complete exclusion of Athe- nian women from politics , but they see that as the end of the matter . Not only are women omitted from further discussion , but ...
... Athenian political society were the result of the unequal distribu- tion of wealth " ( 266 ) . Compare this with Taaffe ( 1991 ) , discussed earlier , who sees the interconnection of gender ideology and political ideology as central to ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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