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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... scholarly approach : 1. Feminist scholars differentiate sex from gender and view the latter as a socially / culturally constructed category . Gender is learned and performed ; it involves the myriad and often normative meanings given to ...
... scholars who work in a number of areas and happen , for one reason or another , to take an interest in women's studies , " scholars " who established their credentials in other areas " ( Fleming 1986a , 74 ) . The powerful effects of ...
... scholars . Her ten pages of bibliography include only five pieces that focus on women by American scholars ( one of whom was British born and educated ) . Since American scholars created and still lead the subfield of women in antiquity ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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