Intimate Commerce

by Wohl, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780292791138
• ISBN10: 0292791135
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780292774056
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
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Summary

Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles'Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She asserts that while the tragedies present an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy), they also offer the possibility of resistance to them.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi	(2)
INTRODUCTION Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity	xiii	(1)
The Tragic Exchange	xiii	(5)
Reaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation	xviii	(6)
The Social Economy of Exchange	xxiv	(5)
The Subject of Exchange	xxix
PART ONE SOVEREIGN FATHER AND FEMALE SUBJECT IN SOPHOCLES' Trachiniae	1	(56)
ONE "THE NOBLEST LAW" The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject	3	(14)
The Final Exchange	3	(3)
Heracles: Subject under Siege	6	(5)
Hyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe	11	(6)
TWO THE FORECLOSED FEMALE SUBJECT	17	(21)
Iole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange	17	(6)
Anti doron dora: Deianira's Gift-Giving	23	(6)
Status and Gender	29	(2)
A Woman's kleos	31	(7)
THREE ALTERITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY	38	(19)
Interpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self	38	(3)
Spatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and kalokagathia	41	(5)
The Virgin in the Garden	46	(11)
PART TWO THE VIOLENCE OF kharis IN AESCHYLUS'S Agamemnon	57	(62)
FOUR THE COMMODITY FETISH AND THE AGALMATIZATION OF THE VIRGIN DAUGHTER	59	(24)
Marx and the Fetishized Economy	60	(7)
The Occluded Exchange	67	(4)
The Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter	71	(12)
FIVE Agalma ploutou: ACCOUNTING FOR HELEN	83	(17)
The Disenchantment of the agalma	83	(8)
Khrusamoibos somaton: The Commodification of the Male Subject	91	(9)
SIX FEAR AND PITY: CLYTEMNESTRA AND CASSANDRA	100	(19)
Androboulon kear: Clytemnestra's Transgressive Identity	103	(7)
A Lament for the Father	110	(9)
PART THREE MOURNING AND MATRICIDE IN EURIPIDES' Alcestis	119	(64)
SEVEN THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT: LOSS, MOURNING, AND REPARATION	121	(11)
EIGHT AGONISTIC IDENTITY AND THE SUPERLATIVE SUBJECT	132	(20)
The Matriarch of the oikos and Alcestis's Domestic Politics	132	(6)
The Superlative Subject and Her Husband	138	(6)
From Tragedy to the Symposium	144	(8)
NINE THE MIRROR OF xenia AND THE PATERNAL SYMBOLIC	152	(25)
From Impossible kharis to the agalma Economy	152	(7)
From physis to praxis	159	(5)
Heracles and the Mirror of xenia	164	(7)
The Final Exchange	171	(6)
CONCLUSION Too Intimate Commerce	177	(6)
NOTES	183	(80)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	263	(22)
GENERAL INDEX	285	(7)
INDEX LOCORUM	292