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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... constructions of race and ethnicity , class , and sexual orientation . This is not because I fail to rec- ognize the importance of these other constructions or their interconnection with gender ; however , race , ethnicity , and class ...
... construction of womanhood requires eroticism , and " it is difficult to imagine anything more hostile to professionalism than eroticism " ( Graham 1978 , 771 ) . I maintain , however , that it is erotic objecti- fication , not eroticism ...
... constructions that set all women apart from all men , no matter what their family or class . This paradoxical ideological construction created a much more complex situation and hence more opportunities for elite Roman women than for ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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