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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... significant part in this discourse , and writers like Rousseau began to refer to concepts about Athenian women to justify their own views about women's nature and proper role in society . As these concepts became part of the general ...
... significant changes , using a thematic rather than a strictly chrono- logical format . Some Key Areas of ... significance of this event , the panel organizer , Mary - Kay Gamel , mused : When the question is one of methodologies and what ...
... significant development in the classics profession . In 1977 , when the CSWMG began to track submissions and acceptances instead of published articles , women accounted for 16 % of all submissions and 18 % of acceptances . Ten years ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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