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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Gendering the Classics Barbara F. McManus. the female academies and seminaries offering a full English curriculum did not provide instruction in Latin and Greek , although a few schools , like Miss Porter's School in Connecticut , offered ...
... offer far more scope for studies of women's political roles , and indeed one can compile a much longer bibliog- raphy of political history that pays some attention to women , including whole books such as War , Women and Children in ...
... offer courses on ancient Greek and Roman women , a really remarkable number when we consider that the first women in antiquity course in the United States was taught in 1971. The variety of topics and approaches indi- cated on table 7 ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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