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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... woman , as she is seen in the pages of history , is either very good or very bad , " and , " The passion of man for woman has been the underlying cause of all history in its phenomenal aspects " ( Carroll 1907 , vii , xi ) . Greek Women ...
... woman and the only American to be awarded the gold medal of the city of Rome and also the only woman elected honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies ( Benario 1977 , 259 ) . She is also the only American woman ...
... Woman and Language in Archaic Greece , or , Why is Sappho a Woman ? In Feminist Theory and the Classics . Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin , 125-44 . New York : Routledge . 1995. Marilyn B. Skinner Appointed Editor of TAPA ...
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THE GENDERING OF THE CLASSICS | 1 |
THE GENDERING | 15 |
COMMUNICATING CLASSICS | 119 |
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