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The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New)
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The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New)
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In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate
Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife,
and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that
these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an
alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens
and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine
civic behavior. Grounded in close readings of four texts, "Against
Neaira," Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes'
Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies
and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the
relevance of these representations of women to civic behavior,
pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings,
Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical
Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even
opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets
of the Athenian subject.
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