Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources

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Laura K. McClure
John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - History - 336 pages
This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
 

Contents

Readings and Sources Editors Introduction
1
Readings and Sources Part I Greece
17
Readings and Sources Part II Rome
145
Readings and Sources Part III Classical Tradition
257
Readings and Sources Bibliography
293
Readings and Sources Index
307
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Laura K. McClure is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (1999), and an edited volume, Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (co-ed. with Andre Lardinois, 2001). She has also published articles on Athenian tragedy, the classical tradition and ancient gender studies. Her current research focuses on the representation of courtesans in second sophistic literature.

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