From Abortion to Pederasty Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom / edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Fiona McHardy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McHardy, Fiona.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.

Classical literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Classical literature.

Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching (Higher).

Civilization, Classical.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume had its origins in a very specific situation: the teaching of ancient texts dealing with rape. Ensuing discussions among a group of scholars expanded outwards from this to other sensitive areas. Ancient sources raise a variety of issues-slavery, infanticide, abortion, rape, pederasty, domestic violence, death, sexuality-that may be difficult to discuss in a classroom where some students will have had experiences similar to those described in classical texts. They may therefore be reluctant to speak in class, and even the reading themselves may be painful. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy, is committed to the proposition that it is important to continue to teach texts that raise these issues, not to avoid them. In this volume, classicists and ancient historians from around the world address how to teach such topics as rape, pederasty, and slavery in the classics classroom. The contributors present the concrete ways in which they themselves have approached such issues in their course planning and in their responses to students' needs. A main objective of From Abortion to Pederasty is to combat arguments, from both the left and the right, that the classics are elitist and irrelevant. Indeed, they are so relevant, and so challenging, as to be painful at times. Another objective is to show how Greco-Roman culture and history can provide a way into a discussion that might have been difficult or even traumatic in other settings. Thus it will provide teaching tools for dealing with uncomfortable topics in the classroom, including homophobia and racism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : difficult and sensitive discussions / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Near death experiences : Greek art and archaeology beyond the grave / Tyler Jo Smith and Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver

Raising Lazarus : death in the classics classroom / Margaret Butler

Disability in today's classics classroom / Lisa Trentin

Teaching ancient medicine : the issues of abortion / Patty Baker, Helen King, and Laurence Totelin

The "whole-university approach : to the pedagogy of domestic violence / Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy

Teaching uncomfortable subjects : when religious beliefs get in the way / Polyxeni Strolonga

Too sexy for South Africa? : teaching Aristophanes' Lysistrata in the land of the rainbow nation / Suzanne Sharland

Pedagogy and pornography in the classics classroom / Genevieve Liveley

Challenges in teaching sexual violence and rape : a male perspective / Sanjaya Thakur

Talking rape in the classics classroom : further thoughts / Sharon L. James

Teaching the uncomfortable subject of slavery / Page duBois

Teaching ancient comedy : joking about race, ethnicity and slavery / Barbara Gold

Difficult dialogues about a difficult dialogue : Plato's Symposium and its gay tradition / Nikolai Endres

A world away from ours : homoeroticism in the classics classroom / Walter Duvall Penrose, Jr.

Queering Catullus in the classroom : the ethics of teaching Poem 63 / Maxine Lewis.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7320-3

OCLC:

890533766