Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She has worked in Greece and southern Italy and currently co-directs a field project in Calabria. She has written extensively on agriculture, land use and gender in classical antiquity. Her publications include Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (2007), two books on masculinity edited with John Salmon, Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition and When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity (1998), as well as Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the Economics of Ancient Greece (2002), edited with Paul Cartledge and Edward Cohen. Klappentext Uses archaeological, visual and written sources to investigate the ideals, practices and performance of gender in the ancient classical world. Zusammenfassung Investigates the ideals! practices and performance of gender in the ancient classical world! exploring archaeological! visual and written sources. Essential reading for gender specialists from a wide range of disciplines and an ideal introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying gender in the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gender and the study of classical antiquity; 2. Households; 3. Demography; 4. Bodies; 5. Wealth; 6. Space; 7. Religion; 8. Conclusions; Bibliographic essay.

Product details

• Authors: Lin Foxhall, Lin (Professor Foxhall, Foxhall Lin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9780521557399
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55739-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Key Themes in Ancient History; Key Themes in Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Gender studies, gender groups, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology