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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... face value " from overwhelmingly male sources , he himself takes literally all the Athenian writers ' negative characterizations of citizen- women , and he attributes " the healthy strain of misogyny and misogamy run- ning through Greek ...
... face of such obstacles , why did a relatively large number of American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries choose to study classics ? Although similar barriers had confronted Jewish men who aspired to careers in ...
... face in our approach to their role , etc. " Another female graduate student characterizes both her undergraduate and graduate experience as " frustrating " : " Whenever I have proposed research or papers which do approach classics from ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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