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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... complex polyphony of contra- puntal melodic lines , and this counterpoint occurs within feminism as well as outside it , for there are many different scholarly methods and emphases within the feminist perspective , a fact I have been ...
... complex process of transgendering feminine space for the male . FEMINIST APPROACHES TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE Revisiting the Aeneid has helped me to appreciate how much my own process of reading and interpreting classical literary works ...
... complex and persuasive interpretation . The reading of the Aeneid that I have presented in this chapter exempli- fies some of the distinguishing features of feminist approaches to classical literary texts . For example , feminist ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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