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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nicole Loraux , Paula WissingPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Volume: 304 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.652kg ISBN: 9780691634340ISBN 10: 0691634343 Pages: 358 Publication Date: 19 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of Contents"List of Abbreviations and KeywordsIntroduction: The Feminine Operator3Pt. 1Women, Men, and AfflictionCh. 1Bed and War23Ch. 2Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for ""Labor""44Pt. 2The Weaknesses of StrengthCh. 3The Spartans' ""Beautiful Death""63Ch. 4The Warrior's Fear and Trembling75Ch. 5The Wounds of Virility88Ch. 6The Strangled Body101Ch. 7Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine116Pt. 3Socrates Is a Man (Philosophical Interlude)Ch. 8Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal145Ch. 9Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher167Pt. 4What Woman?Ch. 10And the Mothers' Case Dismissed183Ch. 11The Phantom of Sexuality194Ch. 12What Tiresias Saw211Conclusion: Feminine Nature in History227Notes249Selected Bibliography333Glossary of Essential Terms and Names339Index345"ReviewsNicole Loraux documents, with delicate sensitivity to text and context, the mobility of the contrast between 'man' and 'the feminine'... [Her] readings of tragedy are particularly compelling. --Mary Margaret McCabe, The Times Literary Supplement Nicole Loraux invites us on a journey across the Greek representations of the human body-its sufferings, its wounds, its death, as well as its beauty... [Whereas the writings of such historians as Herodotus and Thucydides render women opaque,] Loraux washes the palimpsest and makes us rediscover the flesh and blood presence of the female body. --Pierre Chuvin, Le Monde Nicole Loraux's book is not only a subtle and rigorous study of the opposition between the masculine and the feminine, which so strongly shapes the Greek 'imaginary.' It is also, through consistently illuminating rereadings of texts ranging from epics to works of historians, [an examination] of the diverse ways in which Greek men have denied femininity, not without having appropriated it to themselves in various forms. --Louise Bruit, Qinzaine litteraire Loraux is a pioneer in the analysis of gender difference and sexuality in classical Greece. Strongly opposed to polarized interpretations of 'masculine' and 'feminine,' she illuminates the complex and often contradictory interrelationship of the sexes in real life and in the Greek/Athenian social 'imaginary.'... An essential work of classical scholarship. --Choice In her generous and passionate manner, Nicole Loraux brings into bloom an entire field of Greek studies and discovers, behind the serene images that Athenian democracy has created of itself, a terra incognita full of noise and fury. --Catherine David, Le Nouvel Observateur Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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