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Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.
Sommario
Chapter 1 Introduction, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz; Part 1 Redefining the Field; Chapter 2 Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering, Shelley P. Haley; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory, Historical Periods, Literary Canons, and the Study of Greco-Roman Antiquity, Judith P. Hallett; Part 2 Male Writing Female; Chapter 4 "But Ariadne Was Never There in the First Place": Finding the Female in Roman Poetry, Barbara K. Gold; Chapter 5 Film Theory and the Gendered Voice in Seneca, Diana Robin; Part 3 Gynocentrics; Chapter 6 Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman?, Marilyn B. Skinner; Chapter 7, Bella Zweig; Chapter 8 Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics, Tina Passman; Part 4 Epistemology and Material Culture; Chapter 9 The Case for Not Ignoring Marx in the Study of Women in Antiquity, Peter W. Rose; Chapter 10 Feminist Research in Archaeology: What Does It Mean? Why Is It Taking So Long?, Shelby Brown; Chapter 11 The Ethnographer's Dilemma and the Dream of a Lost Golden Age, Amy Richlin;
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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin
Riassunto
This text aims to provide a broad introduction to issues in feminist theory for classicists, and at the same time, to provide feminists with an introduction to feminist work on antiquity.
