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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... fact that men continue to outnumber women in tenure decisions ( an average of 60.5 % of tenure decisions from 1983 ... fact than men tend to hold higher - ranking positions than women . For example , according to responses to the 1991 ...
... fact that by 1996 , women served as editor in chief of five of these jour- nals ( Arethusa , CP , Hesperia , Phoenix , and TAPA ) .3 Figure 9 shows the growth in the aggregate percentages for women's submissions , acceptances ...
... fact , I surmise that most are undergraduate offerings ) . It is harder to account for the fact that courses on ancient sexuality seem to be taught mainly in departments with Ph.D. programs ; perhaps this is also a matter of size cou ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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