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12 Women's Life in Oriental Seclusion? On the History and Use of a Topos
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments viii
- Note to the Reader xi
- Abbreviations xii
- Maps xvii
- Introduction 1
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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
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PART II FOUCAULT AND AFTER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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Section II.1 Representation: Pro-Foucault
- 6 The Social Body and the Sexual Body 131
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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
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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
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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
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PART IV OUTSIDE THE GAME: GODS, EUNUCHS AND CROSSDRESSING
- 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
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- 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 CROSSDRESSING
- 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