Feminist Theory and the Classics / Edition 1

by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin

Overview

Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138139848
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/27/2016
Series:	Thinking Gender
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz; Part 1 Redefining the Field; Chapter 2 Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering, Shelley P. Haley; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory, Historical Periods, Literary Canons, and the Study of Greco-Roman Antiquity, Judith P. Hallett; Part 2 Male Writing Female; Chapter 4 “But Ariadne Was Never There in the First Place”: Finding the Female in Roman Poetry, Barbara K. Gold; Chapter 5 Film Theory and the Gendered Voice in Seneca, Diana Robin; Part 3 Gynocentrics; Chapter 6 Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman?, Marilyn B. Skinner; Chapter 7, Bella Zweig; Chapter 8 Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics, Tina Passman; Part 4 Epistemology and Material Culture; Chapter 9 The Case for Not Ignoring Marx in the Study of Women in Antiquity, Peter W. Rose; Chapter 10 Feminist Research in Archaeology: What Does It Mean? Why Is It Taking So Long?, Shelby Brown; Chapter 11 The Ethnographer's Dilemma and the Dream of a Lost Golden Age, Amy Richlin;