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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... example , after 52 C.E. , a free woman who cohabited with someone else's slave could be enslaved herself , and a freeborn woman could not free her own slave in order to marry him before he reached the age of 30 , even though men could ...
... example , feminist classicists seek to view a literary text as part of the 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 ...
... example of another such application of theory , as she reads the elegiac poetry of Propertius through the lens of Alice Jar- dine's theory of " gynesis " ( Jardine 1985 ) . This theoretical perspective enables her to demonstrate that ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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