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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... poet , Faltonia Betitia Proba , provides an easy example of category 2 because the authors explicitly state that they will concentrate only on the form of the poem even though they recognize that the gender of the poet is an issue ...
... poetic discourse of a desiring female subject speaking to and among other women , organizing female experience around a different pole than patriarchal culture , and con- jectures that its ultimate purpose was " to encode strategies for ...
... poets like Catullus , Propertius , Tibullus , and Ovid were also exploiting transgendered possibilities within the ... poetic climate within which the Aeneid was composed , and the concept of the transgendered offers a fruitful way to ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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