Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface to the Second Edition VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1 Military Expeditions, Protest, Lament, and Scandal 16
7. CHAPTER 2 Attic Mythology: Barren Goddesses, Male Wombs, and the Cult of Rape 33
8. CHAPTER 3 The Phallus and the Box: The World Seen in the Shapes of Human Genitals 65
9. CHAPTER 4 Bearing Children, Watching the House 98
10. CHAPTER 5 Brides of Death, in More Ways Than One 129
11. CHAPTER 6 The Athenian Prostitute: A Good Buy in the Agora 153
12. CHAPTER 7 The Whore with the Golden Heart, the Happy Hooker, and Other Fictions 187
13. CHAPTER 8 Two Kinds of Women: The Splitting of the Female Psyche 204
14. CHAPTER 9 The Sex Appeal of Female Toil 229
15. CHAPTER 10 Easier to Live with Than a Wife: The Concubine 267
16. CHAPTER 11 The Boy Beautiful: Replacing a Woman or Replacing a Son? 274
17. CHAPTER 12 Learning to Be a Man, Learning to Be a Woman 300
18. CHAPTER 13 Sex Among the Barbarians 321
19. CHAPTER 14 Classical Tragedy: Weaving Men's Dream of Sexual Strife 329
20. CHAPTER 15 Sex Antagonism and Women's Rituals 349
21. CHAPTER 16 Love, Not War: Protest in the Arts and on the Streets 381
22. Epilogue 404
23. Notes 417
24. Bibliography 421
25. Supplementary Bibliography 435
26. Sources of Illustrations 441
27. Index 449
28. Appendix 459