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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... cultural study of ancient sex / gender systems . Cross - cultural stud- ies of sex / gender systems help to make their outlines more vivid and demystify their power as universals . Although feminist classical scholars frequently juxta ...
... cultural lenses through which individuals living in that civilization view the world , lenses that are frequently invisible to those individuals . If we simply adopt those cultural lenses ourselves , we will miss an entire dimension of ...
... cultural discourse of its specific time and place , especially the sex / gender system . This broader discourse has shaped the literary work , as it also shaped the author and audience , and the text in turn contributed to the further ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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