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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... colleges and universities : for example , Sarah Pomeroy , " Women and Slaves in Classical Antiquity , " Hunter College , 1971-72 ; Meyer Reinhold , honors collo- quium on “ Women in Antiquity , " University of Missouri , 1972 ( Pomeroy ...
... colleges specifically designed to give women a liberal arts educa- tion equivalent to that provided by colleges for men . Vassar ( 1865 ) , Wellesley ( 1875 ) , and Smith ( 1875 ) all offered classics programs , which were essential if ...
... colleges in America offered at least some white women the chance for a professional academic career in classics . Indeed , we can see what a striking role women's colleges have played in the careers of female classicists in America by ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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