Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

by Mark Golden (Editor), Peter Toohey (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748613199
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/11/2003
Series:	Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Golden is Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg Peter Toohey is Professor and Head of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	viii
	Note to the Reader	xi
	Abbreviations	xii
	Maps	xvii
	Introduction	1
Part I	Before Foucault: Prehistory
1	Women in Classical Athens-Their Social Space: Ideal and Reality	23
2	Ideology and "the Status of Women" in Ancient Greece	30
3	The Athenian Woman	44
4	The Sociology of Prostitution in Antiquity in the Context of Pagan and Christian Writings	57
5	Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour	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	131
Section II.2	Representation: Anti-Foucault
7	Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens	151
8	Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality	167
Section II.3	Gender, Sex and the Body: Engendering the Body
9	The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science	183
10	Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools	202
11	Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking	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	241
13	The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid	253
14	Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece	264
15	Concealing/Revealing: Gender and the Play of Meaning in the Monuments of Augustan Rome	276
16	Satyrs in the Women's Quarters	290
Part IV	Outside the Game: Gods, Eunuchs and Cross-Dressing
17	A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory	307
18	The Asexuality of Dionysus	319
19	"Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy	334
20	The Hippocratic "Airs, Waters, Places" on Cross-Dressing Eunuchs: "Natural" yet also "Divine"	351
	Intellectual Chronology	370
	Further Reading	373
	Bibliography	376
	Index	397

Editorial Reviews

Usefully brings together essays not all of which are easily accessible … more interesting still - breathtaking, in fact - is the way it shows how the field has developed in thirty years … Overall, a book which is highly entertaining, instructive, accessible to teenagers, essential for students and extremely useful for teachers.

Journal of Classics Teaching

Recommended. All academic levels/collections.

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