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This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female
homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful
reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the
existing visual and written record including literary,
philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female
homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical,
ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans.
Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these cliches with rigorous,
precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid,
Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological
writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and
possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient
society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society
"before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different,
but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the
first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to
students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to
anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.
Chapters are written by scholars form across a range of the
humanities and social schiences, giving a broad, interdisciplinary
perspective on the impact of Foucault's work. Updated and revised
introduction and bibliography to explicitly address an anglophone
readership.
Chapters are written by scholars form across a range of the
humanities and social schiences, giving a broad, interdisciplinary
perspective on the impact of Foucault's work. Updated and revised
introduction and bibliography to explicitly address an anglophone
readership.
This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female
homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful
reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the
existing visual and written record including literary,
philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female
homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical,
ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans.
Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these cliches with rigorous,
precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid,
Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological
writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and
possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient
society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society
"before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different,
but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the
first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to
students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to
anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.
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