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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... scholarship on women in classical antiquity began in the United States . The nature of this story also requires a concentra- tion on the philological and historical branches of classical scholarship instead of the archaeological and art ...
Gendering the Classics Barbara F. McManus. classical scholarship , as demonstrated by the DCB study , in which only 1 of the 10 broad APh rubrics ( Les études classiques ) had no gender - related arti- cles . When I broke down the gender ...
... classical scholarship.3 While most classical studies of women still exhibit the six methodologi- cal principles that I noted in chapter 1 as hallmarks of the new scholarly approach to this topic , I will here organize my discussion of ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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