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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ABBREVIATIONS AND KEYWORDS vii
- Introduction. THE FEMININE OPERATOR 1
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PART ONE: Women, Men, and Affliction
- CHAPTER 1. Bed and War 23
- CHAPTER 2. Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for "Labor" 44
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PART TWO: The Weaknesses of Strength
- CHAPTER 3. The Spartans' "Beautiful Death" 63
- CHAPTER 4. The Warrior's Fear and Trembling 75
- CHAPTER 5. The Wounds of Virility 88
- CHAPTER 6. The Strangled Body 101
- CHAPTER 7. Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine 116
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PART THREE: Socrates IS a Man (Philosophical Interlude)
- CHAPTER 8. Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal 145
- CHAPTER 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher 167
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PART FOUR: What Woman?
- CHAPTER 10. And the Mothers' Case Dismissed 183
- CHAPTER 11. The Phantom of Sexuality 194
- CHAPTER 12. What Tiresias Saw 211
- CONCLUSION. Feminine Nature in History 227
- Notes 249
- Selected Bibliography 333
- Glossary of Essential Terms and Names 339
- Index 345
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ABBREVIATIONS AND KEYWORDS vii
- Introduction. THE FEMININE OPERATOR 1
-
PART ONE: Women, Men, and Affliction
- CHAPTER 1. Bed and War 23
- CHAPTER 2. Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for "Labor" 44
-
PART TWO: The Weaknesses of Strength
- CHAPTER 3. The Spartans' "Beautiful Death" 63
- CHAPTER 4. The Warrior's Fear and Trembling 75
- CHAPTER 5. The Wounds of Virility 88
- CHAPTER 6. The Strangled Body 101
- CHAPTER 7. Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine 116
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PART THREE: Socrates IS a Man (Philosophical Interlude)
- CHAPTER 8. Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal 145
- CHAPTER 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher 167
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PART FOUR: What Woman?
- CHAPTER 10. And the Mothers' Case Dismissed 183
- CHAPTER 11. The Phantom of Sexuality 194
- CHAPTER 12. What Tiresias Saw 211
- CONCLUSION. Feminine Nature in History 227
- Notes 249
- Selected Bibliography 333
- Glossary of Essential Terms and Names 339
- Index 345