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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... suffering and mortality " ( Segal 1971 , 31-32 ) . More insidiously , both quotations virtually equate classics with human- ism ; although historically appropriate when speaking of Renaissance human- ism , which was a direct outgrowth ...
... I , tossed about by many troubles , at last come to rest in this land ; not unaware of suffering myself , I am learning to help the unfortunate . ] Indeed , the transgendered authority presented in this section of TRANSGENDERED MOMENTS 101.
... suffering ideal monarch " ( 32 ) . In contrast , Dido is analyzed as a " good king " who degenerates into a bad one under the influence of passion , while Turnus is depicted as a " bad king " from the beginning , one " who cannot be ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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