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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... United States . 7. Women classicists— United States . 8. Women - Education - United States . 9. Women and literature - Greece . 10. Women and literature - Rome . II . Series . PA78.U6M38 1997 I. Title . 480'.07'073 - dc20 96-36021 CIP ...
... United States during the early 1970s . Chapter 2 con- siders the profession of classics in the United States , proposing that the unusual educational opportunities open to women in nineteenth - century America created a unique double ...
... United States , not only because that is what I know best , but also because there is a distinctive story to tell . Women entered the classics profes- sion earlier and in greater numbers in the United States than elsewhere ; more ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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