Parchments of gender : deciphering the bodies of antiquity / edited by Maria Wyke.

Other author Wyke, Maria.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionx, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Human body--Social aspects. --Mediterranean Region.
Human body--Symbolic aspects. --Mediterranean Region.
Sex role--Mediterranean Region. --History.
Human body in literature.
Social history--To 500.
Mediterranean Region--Social life and customs.

Contents Ithyphallic males behaving badly; or, satyr drama as gendered tragic ending / Edith Hall -- 'Mother of the argument' : Eros and the body in Sappho and Plato's Phaedrus / Helene P. Foley -- Talking recipes in the gynaecological texts of the Hippocratic Corpus / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Controlling daughters' bodies in Sirach / Jon L. Berquist -- Austerity, excess, success, and failure in Hellenistic and early imperial Italy / Emma Dench -- Poisonous women and unnatural history in Roman culture / Sarah Currie -- Discovering the body in Roman oratory / Erik Gunderson -- Emperor's new body : ascension from Rome / Mary Beard and John Henderson -- 'Ordering the house' : on the domestication of Jewish bodies / Cynthia M. Baker -- Playing Roman soldiers : the martyred body, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and the representation of male homosexuality / Maria Wyke -- Sowing the seeds of violence : rape, women, and the land / Carol Dougherty.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98008002
ISBN0198150806 (acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GT497.M44 P37 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold