Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Golden, Mark, 1948-, Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2003], ©2003.
Series:Edinburgh readings on the ancient world.
Subjects:
Sex > Greece > History.
Sex > Rome > History.
Sex role > Greece > History.
Sex role > Rome > History.
Women > Greece > History.
Women > Rome > History.
Physical Description:xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Women in classical Athens / Christine Schnurr-Redford
  • Ideology and "the status of women" in ancient Greece / Marilyn Katz
  • Athenian woman / H.D.F. Kitto
  • Sociology of prostitution in antiquity in the context of pagan and Christian writings / Hans Herter
  • Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behavior / K.J. Dover
  • Social body and sexual body / David Halperin
  • Law, society, and homosexuality in classical Athens / David Cohen
  • Pandora unbound / Lin Foxhall
  • Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science / Lesley Dean-Jones
  • Gender and rhetoric / Amy Richlin
  • Representations of male-to-female lovemaking / J.R. Clarke
  • Women's life in oriental seclusion? / B. Wagner-Hasel
  • Attitudes of the Polis to childbirth / Nancy Demand
  • Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece / Ian Morris
  • Concealing/revealing / Barbara Kellum
  • Satyrs in the women's quarters / François Lissarrague
  • Feminist boomerang / Lauren E. Talalay
  • Asexuality of Dionysus / Michael Jameson
  • "Vested interests" in Plautus' Casina / Barbara Gold
  • Hippocratic "airs, waters, places" on cross-dressing eunuchs / Elinor Lieber.