Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.

Other author Golden, Mark, 1948-
Other author Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesEdinburgh readings on the ancient world
Contents Women in classical Athens / Christine Schnurr-Redford -- Ideology and "the status of women" in ancient Greece / Marilyn Katz -- Athenian woman / H.D.F. Kitto -- Sociology of prostitution in antiquity in the context of pagan and Christian writings / Hans Herter -- Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behavior / K.J. Dover -- Social body and sexual body / David Halperin -- Law, society, and homosexuality in classical Athens / David Cohen -- Pandora unbound / Lin Foxhall -- Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Gender and rhetoric / Amy Richlin -- Representations of male-to-female lovemaking / J.R. Clarke -- Women's life in oriental seclusion? / B. Wagner-Hasel -- Attitudes of the Polis to childbirth / Nancy Demand -- Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece / Ian Morris -- Concealing/revealing / Barbara Kellum -- Satyrs in the women's quarters / François Lissarrague -- Feminist boomerang / Lauren E. Talalay -- Asexuality of Dionysus / Michael Jameson -- "Vested interests" in Plautus' Casina / Barbara Gold -- Hippocratic "airs, waters, places" on cross-dressing eunuchs / Elinor Lieber.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2003363147
ISBN074861320X (pbk.)

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