The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient GreeceRoutledge, 2013 M02 1 - 282 pages For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back from this narrowly framed question and puts it in the larger context of how sex and gender in ancient Greece were culturally constructed. His innovative approach uncovers the very real possibilities for female autonomy that existed in Greek society. |
Contents
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Reading Against the Grain | 99 |
Gunaikes | 127 |
Appendix One Translation of Artemidoros 17880 | 210 |
Appendix Two Phusis and Natura Meaning Genitals | 217 |
Notes | 221 |
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The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece John J. Winkler No preview available - 2017 |
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Adonis agégai Aiskhines ancient androcentric Aphrodite Aristophanes Aristotle Artemidoros Athenaios Athenian Athens beautiful beggar behavior Book Chapter citizen consciousness contrast conventional cultural Daphnis and Chloe Demeter Demetrian desire dream dreamer erés Eros erotic experience father feel female festival field figure find fire first flowers frag fragment gardens gender genitals goddess Greek Homer honor hoplite household husband Iliad influenced intercourse interpretation leinaidos Longus lover magic maids male man’s marriage meaning Mediterranean men’s métis modern mother nature Nausikaa Odysseus ofher ofits ofthe one’s oneiroi papyrus Penelope Penelope’s penetrated penis person phusis Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poetry political Polyphemos prostitution protocols reading refers rites role Sappho scene sexual signifies slave sleep social society Sokrates song soul Speakers speaking specifically spells Stenia story suitors symbolic syrinx Telemakhos Thesmophoria things tion Tithonos unnatural violence wife wives woman women word young