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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... epic as misogynistic ( if they pay any attention to gender at all ; some simply view this kind of polarity as " natural " ) . The opening scene of the epic presents a succinct portrayal of the way the epic figures link gender with these ...
... epic is strikingly similar to what Kathleen Jones envisions as " compassionate authority , " authority reconceptualized to include that which is gendered as feminine and based on an imaginative assumption of the standpoint of a con ...
... epic's ending . Scholars could also use the concept of transgendering as a springboard for fuller studies of the struggles over gender surrounding his- torical individuals contemporary with the epic ( e.g. , Augustus , Antony ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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