Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

Mark Golden; Peter Toohey

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2003

Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

Mark Golden and Peter Toohey

In the series Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468541

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Note to the Reader Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I BEFORE FOUCAULT: PREHISTORY
1 Women in Classical Athens-Their Social Space: Ideal and Reality Christine Schnurr-Redford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Ideology and "the Status of Women" in Ancient Greece Marilyn Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3 The Athenian Woman H. D. F. Kitto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4 The Sociology of Prostitution in Antiquity in the Context of Pagan and Christian Writings Hans Herter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour K. J. Dover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
PART II FOUCAULT AND AFTER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Section II.1 Representation: Pro-Foucault
6 The Social Body and the Sexual Body David Halperin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Section II. 2 Representation: Anti-Foucault
7 Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens David Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
8 Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality Lin Foxhall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Section II. 3 Gender, Sex and the Body: Engendering the Body
9 The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science Lesley Dean-Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
10 Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools Amy Richlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
11 Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking J. R Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
PART III WHAT IF THERE WERE NO FOUCAULT? SEPARATE SPHERES REVISITED
12 Women's Life in Oriental Seclusion? On the History and Use of a Topos B. Wagner-Hasel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
13 The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid Nancy Demand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14 Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece Ian Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
15 Concealing/Revealing: Gender and the Play of Meaning in the Monuments of Augustan Rome Barbara Kellum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
16 Satyrs in the Women's Quarters Frantcois Lissarrague Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
PART IV OUTSIDE THE GAME: GODS, EUNUCHS AND CROSSDRESSING
17 A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory Lauren E. Talalay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
18 The Asexuality of Dionysus Michael Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
19 "Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy Barbara Gold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
20 The Hippocratic ''Airs, Waters, Places" on Cross-Dressing Eunuchs: "Natural" yet also "Divine" Elinor Lieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Intellectual Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

eBook

Published: July 11, 2003
ISBN: 9781474468541