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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... feminism . The chapter ends with a look at resistance to feminism in classics graduate programs and thoughts about the need for feminist classicists to communicate more broadly outside the disci- pline . When I refer to feminism , I am ...
... feminism , and the following characteristics represent my criteria for distin- guishing a feminist scholarly approach : 1. Feminist scholars differentiate sex from gender and view the latter as a socially / culturally constructed ...
... feminist perspec- tives , though he acknowledges the important role of feminist classicists in making this type of scholarly focus possible : " The existence of opportunities to write and publish about women in the ancient world has ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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