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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... true of only 14 % of men at the same rank . Furthermore , marriage correlated positively with men's publica- tion rates but negatively with women's . The most disturbing statistic was not published in this report , but it inspired the ...
... true , however , that Dido's actions , marked off from book 1 by Aeneas's long tale of the fall of Troy and his wanderings , are no longer trans- gendered ; indeed , the " symbolic distortion " has gendered her as excessively feminine ...
... true that classics ' self - definition is closely bound up with the idea of standards ( as can be seen from the field's name ) , standards that were estab- lished a very long time ago and according to a very masculine norm . Femi- nists ...
Contents
THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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