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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... battle will be fought on an orderly and rational basis ( " oblato ... foedere " [ according to the solemn compact that he had offered ] , 12.109 ) . After the treaty is treacherously broken through the interference of Juturna , however ...
... battle like Achilles , even to the point of taking prisoners to sacrifice at Pallas's funeral . The blood - lust of war leads him to scornfully dismiss pietas itself , as he taunts young Lausus with weakness : “ quo moriture ruis ...
... Battle of Actium depicted on Aeneas's shield as emblematic of this scheme , Quint argues that Cleopatra , along with Juno elsewhere in the epic , " gives the name of woman to the anarchic forces inherent in the East , in the cosmos ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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