Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World Readings and Sources

by McClure, Laura K.

• ISBN13: 9780631225881
• ISBN10: 0631225889
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.

Author Biography

Laura K. McClure is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (1999), and an edited volume, Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (co-ed. with Andre Lardinois, 2001). She has also published articles on Athenian tragedy, the classical tradition and ancient gender studies. Her current research focuses on the representation of courtesans in second sophistic literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction

Greece

Classical Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour

Double-Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics

Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women

Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama

Rome

The Silent Women of Rome

The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia

Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Excerpts

Pliny's Brassiere Excerpt

Classical Tradition

"The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours." Excerpt

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