Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome
By: edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.
Contributors: Golden, Mark, 1948-; Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Series: Edinburgh readings on the ancient world
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Sex -- Greece -- History.; Sex -- Rome -- History.; Sex role -- Greece -- History.; Sex role -- Rome -- History.; Women -- Greece -- History.; Women -- Rome -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in classical Athens -- Christine Schnurr-Redford; title: Ideology and "the status of women" in ancient Greece -- Marilyn Katz; title: Athenian woman -- H.D.F. Kitto
pagenum: 44-56; title: Sociology of prostitution in antiquity in the context of pagan and Christian writings -- Hans Herter; title: Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behavior -- K.J. Dover; title: Social body and sexual body -- David Halperin; title: Law, society, and homosexuality in classical Athens -- David Cohen; title: Pandora unbound -- Lin Foxhall; title: Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science -- Lesley Dean-Jones; title: Gender and rhetoric -- Amy Richlin; title: Representations of male-to-female lovemaking -- J.R. Clarke; title: Women's life in oriental seclusion? -- B. Wagner-Hasel; title: Attitudes of the Polis to childbirth -- Nancy Demand; title: Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece -- Ian Morris; title: Concealing/revealing -- Barbara Kellum; title: Satyrs in the women's quarters -- François Lissarrague; title: Feminist boomerang -- Lauren E. Talalay; title: Asexuality of Dionysus -- Michael Jameson; title: "Vested interests" in Plautus' Casina -- Barbara Gold; title: Hippocratic "airs, waters, places" on cross-dressing eunuchs -- Elinor Lieber.