Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and
social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities
and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first
characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized
- so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking
and ideas that it once did. Brooke Holmes here rescues ancient
ideas about sex and gender in order precisely to reinvigorate
contemporary debate. She argues that much writing on gender in the
classical age fails to place those ancient ideas within their
proper historical contexts. As a result, the full transformational
force of that thinking is often overlooked. In this short, lively
book, the author offers a sophisticated and historically rounded
reading of gender in antiquity in order to map out the future of
contemporary gender studies. By re-examining ancient notions of
sexual difference, bodies, culture, and identity, Holmes shows that
Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and others force us to
reassess what is at stake in present-day discussions about gender.
The ancient world thus offers a vital resource for modern gender
theory.
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