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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 October 2009
      24 November 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511552052
      9780521899987
      9781107404977
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552052
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 222 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 222 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General)
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    In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behaviour. Grounded in close readings of four texts, 'Against Neaira', Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the relevance of these representations of women to civic behaviour, pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings, Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets of the Athenian subject.

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    "Gilhuly has written an admirable study of the interplay between the three female roles of prostitute, the wife, and the ritual agent in late fifth and fourth-century Athenian literature." --BMCR

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