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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... important educational function , since it set testimony from classics faculty and students in the context of broader theoretical and legal perspectives about sexual harassment ; in the words of the organizers , " We are ... strengthened ...
... important part of those people . Thus my choice to write about the topic of women in Aeschylus is not written because of an undercurrent of feminine [ sic ] scholarship but because it was a topic that interested me . " Another male ...
... important support and corrective for female graduate students , but it has an equally important role to play for male graduate students . The 1995 directory lists very few graduate faculty with a specialization in women in classical ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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