Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources

Editor(s): Laura K. McClure

Published Online: 11 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631225881

Online ISBN: 9780470756188

DOI: 10.1002/9780470756188

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This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Editor's Introduction (pages 1–15)

  3. Part I: Greece

    1. Chapter 1

      Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour (pages 17–38)

      K. J. Dover

    2. Chapter 2

      Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics (pages 39–76)

      J. J. Winkler

    3. Chapter 3

      Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women (pages 77–102)

      H. King

    4. Chapter 4

      Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama (pages 103–144)

      F. I. Zeitlin

  4. Part II: Rome

    1. Chapter 5

      The Silent Women of Rome (pages 147–160)

      M. I. Finley

    2. Chapter 6

      The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia (pages 163–190)

      S. R. Joshel

    3. Chapter 7

      Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy (pages 193–224)

      M. Wyke

    4. Chapter 8

      Pliny's Brassiere (pages 225–256)

      A. Richlin

  5. Part III: Classical Tradition

    1. Chapter 9

      The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours (pages 257–292)

      P. K. Joplin

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      Bibliography (pages 293–306)

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      Index (pages 307–318)

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