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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
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
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The nature of gender, the gender of nature
- 2. The practice of Gender, the gender of practice
- 3. The politics of Gender, the gender of politics
- CONCLUSION
- Some suggestions for further reading
- NOTES
- INDEX
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