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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... glory and honor that the men would earn . Instead , Bertram argues , the women's action is conso- nant with " Vergil's view of women as either potential obstructionists prone to hysteria ... or vapid instrumentalities ” ( Bertram 1971 ...
... her murder Aegisthus and thus win public glory : " I suggest that the image Sophocles evokes here is of a public statue commemorating Electra and Chrysothemis , on a parallel with the paired statues of CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP 61.
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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