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:	9780415906463
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/1993
Series:	Thinking Gender
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I Redefining the Field 2. Black Feminist Thought and Classics 3. Feminist Theory, Historical Periods, Literary Canons and the Study of Greco-Roman Antiquity Part II Male Writing Female 4. Finding the Female in Roman Poetry 5. Film Theory

and the Gendered Voice in Seneca Part III Gynocentrics 6. Women and Language in Archaic Greece 7. Using Native American Models for the Study of Women in Ancient Greece 8. Out of the Closet and into the Field Part IV Material Culture 9. The Case for not Ignoring Marx in

the Study of Women in Antiquity 10. Feminist Research in Classical Arcaeology 11. The Ethnographer's Dilemma and the Dream of a Lost Golden Age