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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... fall issue of Arethusa , one by a woman and one by a man ) . The nine articles included five on Greek subjects , one on a Roman subject , one on an Etruscan subject , one including Greece and Rome , and an annotated bibliography cov ...
... since 1975 ( to 30 % ) , lagging behind general statistics for the United States , which indicate that women comprised 31.75 % of the total faculty in fall 1991 ( THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICIST 45 Statistical Profiles.
... fall of Troy and his wanderings , are no longer trans- gendered ; indeed , the " symbolic distortion " has gendered her as excessively feminine in the most emotional , disorderly , and subjugated sense . Vergil graphically represents ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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