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19 "Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy

© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments viii
  4. Note to the Reader xi
  5. Abbreviations xii
  6. Maps xvii
  7. Introduction 1
  8. PART I BEFORE FOUCAULT: PREHISTORY
  9. 1 Women in Classical Athens-Their Social Space: Ideal and Reality 23
  10. 2 Ideology and "the Status of Women" in Ancient Greece 30
  11. 3 The Athenian Woman 44
  12. 4 The Sociology of Prostitution in Antiquity in the Context of Pagan and Christian Writings 57
  13. 5 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour 114
  14. PART II FOUCAULT AND AFTER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT GENDER AND SEXUALITY
  15. Section II.1 Representation: Pro-Foucault
  16. 6 The Social Body and the Sexual Body 131
  17. Section II. 2 Representation: Anti-Foucault
  18. 7 Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens 151
  19. 8 Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality 167
  20. Section II. 3 Gender, Sex and the Body: Engendering the Body
  21. 9 The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science 183
  22. 10 Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools 202
  23. 11 Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking 221
  24. PART III WHAT IF THERE WERE NO FOUCAULT? SEPARATE SPHERES REVISITED
  25. 12 Women's Life in Oriental Seclusion? On the History and Use of a Topos 241
  26. 13 The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid 253
  27. 14 Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece 264
  28. 15 Concealing/Revealing: Gender and the Play of Meaning in the Monuments of Augustan Rome 276
  29. 16 Satyrs in the Women's Quarters 290
  30. PART IV OUTSIDE THE GAME: GODS, EUNUCHS AND CROSSDRESSING
  31. 17 A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory 307
  32. 18 The Asexuality of Dionysus 319
  33. 19 "Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy 334
  34. 20 The Hippocratic ''Airs, Waters, Places" on Cross-Dressing Eunuchs: "Natural" yet also "Divine" 351
  35. Intellectual Chronology 370
  36. Further Reading 373
  37. Bibliography 376
  38. Index 397
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