Gender : antiquity and its legacy /
Holmes, Brooke,1976-
New York : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Originally published: UK : I.B. Tauris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature of gender, the gendering of nature. Sliding scales -- The myth of Pandora: woman as other? -- Sexing the body in ancient medical and biological texts -- Sex and gender: ancients and moderns -- The gendering of matter -- The practice of gender, the gender of practice. Gender's zero-sum game -- Foucault's ancients -- Before sexuality? The past and its uses -- Practices of masculinity -- The politics of gender, the gender of politics. Variations on a murder -- Demeter, Persephone and the great goddess -- The legacy of Demeter -- Matriarchal prehistory -- Arresting Antigone. Hegel: introducing the family and the state -- Lacan: Antigone's desire -- Irigaray: reclaiming Antigone -- Butler and beyond: the future of gender.
Sex role
Sex
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Greek literature, Hellenistic