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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... transgendered moments from " sex - role crossovers " ( when a member of one sex is per- ceived as inappropriately taking over a role considered to belong to the opposite sex and hence seeking to " become " that sex ) as well as from ...
... transgendered possibilities within the conventions and situations of elegiac poetry . Thus , transgendered moments , however elusive and con- tested , did exist in the political and poetic climate within which the Aeneid was composed ...
... transgendered as defined by two political scientists . Barbara Gold ( 1993b ) provides an excellent example of another such application of ... transgendered moment is perceived through the eyes of others . However TRANSGENDERED MOMENTS 117.
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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