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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... tion to the established fund of knowledge ( note the financial metaphor ) , a feminist attempt to re - appropriate the cultural capital required calling the thought police . ( Gamel 1990 , 173 ) 28 The ultimate fallout from this event ...
... tion does not signal the closing off of the APA to feminist perspectives on the study of classical antiquity and to contributions of its women members " ( APA Newsletter 15.1 [ 1992 ] : 3 ) . Further resolutions urged publication of the ...
... tion with Hector , 111-12 ; in rela- tion to feminized space , 92 , 109-10 ; transgendering of , 110-14 Aeneid : feminist readings of , 92 , 115 , 173n . 2 ; gender ideology of figura- tive level in , 96-99 , 102 , 107 , 109-10 , 113 ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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