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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... Dido is not allowed to remain in this transgendered position , and Vergil marks the change with a dramatic intrusion of the epic figures into the level of narrative action . Venus schemes with her son Cupid to take the shape of Aeneas's ...
... Dido's fate is overdetermined by such figurative interventions ( not only the assault of Cupid but also the collusion of Juno and Venus to precipitate the supernatural storm and " marriage " with Aeneas in the cave ) , and Vergil's ...
... Dido as " manly . " Her assertions are based on paral- lels like that of Dido and Ajax in the underworld , or on the way she herself reacts to Dido's words : " We spontaneously praise these words for their heroic and manly qualities ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
Copyright | |
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