Gender
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Gender

Antiquity and its Legacy

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Gender

Antiquity and its Legacy

About this book

Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized - so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking and ideas that it once did. Brooke Holmes here rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender in order precisely to reinvigorate contemporary debate. She argues that much writing on gender in the classical age fails to place those ancient ideas within their proper historical contexts. As a result, the full transformational force of that thinking is often overlooked. In this short, lively book, the author offers a sophisticated and historically rounded reading of gender in antiquity in order to map out the future of contemporary gender studies. By re-examining ancient notions of sexual difference, bodies, culture, and identity, Holmes shows that Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and others force us to reassess what is at stake in present-day discussions about gender. The ancient world thus offers a vital resource for modern gender theory.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781845119294
eBook ISBN
9780857722539
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences
fact 
that 
these 
figures 
are 
products 
of 
canonical 
male-authored 
texts 
raises
tough 
questions 
about 
whether 
they 
had 
anything 
to 
do 
with 
the 
lives 
of
real 
women 
or 
offered 
genuine 
opportunities 
for 
subversive 
identifications.
I 
largely 
set 
these 
questions 
aside, 
however, 
to 
concentrate 
instead 
on 
how
iconic 
figures 
like 
Demeter, 
Clytemnestra 
and 
Antigone 
have 
been 
used 
by
contemporary 
thinkers 
to 
probe 
questions 
of 
female 
subjectivity 
and 
to
reimagine 
– 
and 
indeed 
to 
reshape
– 
a 
political 
landscape 
that, 
for 
most 
of
Western 
history, 
has 
largely 
failed 
to 
accommodate 
women 
as 
legitimate
civic 
agents.
the 
practice 
of 
gender, 
the 
gender 
of 
practice
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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. FOREWORD
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. 1. The nature of gender, the gender of nature
  6. 2. The practice of Gender, the gender of practice
  7. 3. The politics of Gender, the gender of politics
  8. CONCLUSION
  9. Some suggestions for further reading
  10. NOTES
  11. INDEX