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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... play are seen to be under the control of men ( male playwright , male chorus , male actors ) , Aristo- phanes was free to play with the idea of gender role reversal without ever seriously challenging Athenian power structures and could ...
... play is inhibited by gender prescriptions ; she is just too nice . She learns to circumvent these prescriptions by role playing on the court — not taking on the role of a boy but rather that of a twin with the nongendered name of ...
... play about women wearing male clothes who vote themselves into power ) , but they emphasize the play's allegorical representation of other political concerns : " The most glaring inequalities within Athenian political society were the ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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