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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... refer to feminism , I am not envisioning a monolithic , well- defined entity or theoretical position . I use this term in its broadest meaning , as a movement to create equal opportunity for women as well as men in all areas of life and ...
... refer to " that coy , demure daughter , Simplification " and uses the pronoun " she " for philology ( Moore 1919 , 12 ) .13 An accompanying article on " Fifty Years of Classical Studies in America " is also silent about women's ...
... refer with approval to the autobiography of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno , in which Paterno testifies to ... referring to the admiration for Aeneas TRANSGENDERED MOMENTS 93 Transgendered Moments.
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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