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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... journals - American Journal of Archaeology ( AJA ) , sponsored by the American Institute of Archaeology , and Hesperia , sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ; two dedicated to contemporary theoretical ...
... journals study , I attempted to confront this issue directly by skimming all of the articles from the included journals published in 1971 , 1981 , and 1991 , and reading more carefully any that appeared relevant . Though extremely time ...
... journals study demonstrates this most clearly , because there , the gender - related pieces can be measured against the total number of articles in the 15 journals studied , constituting slightly less than one - fourth of the whole in ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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