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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... scene explicitly ends ( “ Et iam finis erat " 1.223 ) with the figure of Jupiter , the apex of masculine imagery in the poem , looking down from the heights of Olympus . He is characterized as supremely potent ( " hominum sator atque ...
... scene combines such military terms with amatory and maternal imagery , troping a city ruled by a woman with the ... scenes " symbolic distortions , " Susanne Wofford explains how they work throughout the Aeneid ( 1992 , 97-211 ) . The ...
... scene that dramatizes the contested gendering of pietas . After Turnus finally agrees to single combat , Aeneas is ... scene has come full circle , returning to the combination of military valor and pietas with which it began ; the ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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