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Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh readings on the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Greece--History.
- Sex.
- Sex--Rome--History.
- Women--Greece--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Greece.
- Women--Rome--History.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2003]
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- text file
- Summary:
- This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault. This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought.
- Contents:
- Women in classical Athens / Christine Schnurr-Redford
- Ideology and "the status of women" in ancient Greece / Marilyn Katz
- Athenian woman / H.D.F. Kitto
- Sociology of prostitution in antiquity in the context of pagan and Christian writings / Hans Herter
- Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behavior / K.J. Dover
- Social body and sexual body / David Halperin
- Law, society, and homosexuality in classical Athens /?r David Cohen
- Pandora unbound / Lin Foxhall
- Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science / Lesley Dean-Jones
- Gender and rhetoric / Amy Richlin
- Representations of male-to-female lovemaking / J.R. Clarke
- Women's life in oriental seclusion? / B. Wagner-Hasel
- Attitudes of the Polis to childbirth / Nancy Demand
- Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece / Ian Morris
- Concealing/revealing /?r Barbara Kellum
- Satyrs in the women's quarters / Francıois Lissarrague
- Feminist boomerang / Lauren E. Talalay
- Asexuality of Dionysus / Michael Jameson
- "Vested interests" in Plautus' Casina / Barbara Gold
- Hippocratic "airs, waters, places" on cross-dressing eunuchs / Elinor Lieber.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780748679560
- 0748679561
- 9780748651016
- 0748651012
- 9781474468541
- 1474468543
- OCLC:
- 654360755
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3366/j.ctt1r24jz
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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