Ancient sex: new essays

by Blondell, Ruby Ormand, Kirk

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Title Statements

Full title :Ancient sex : new essays / edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand.

Summary

Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Since the production of Foucault's History of Sexuality, the field of classics has been caught in a recursive loop of argument regarding the existence - or lack thereof - of sexuality (particularly homosexuality) as a meaningful cultural concept for ancient Greece and Rome. Much of the argument concerning these issues, however, has failed to engage with the central argument of Foucault's work, namely, the assertion that sexuality as we understand it is the correlative of a historically specific form of medical and legal discourse that emerged only in the late nineteenth century. Rather than reopening old debates, Ancient Sex takes up Foucault's call for discursive analysis and elucidates some of the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate a culturally specific discourse about sexual matters. Each contributor presupposes that sexual and gendered identities are discursively produced, and teases out some of the ways that the Greeks and Romans spoke and thought about these issues. Comprising essays by emerging and established scholars, this volume emphasizes in particular: sexual discourses about women; the interaction between sexual identities and class status; gender as an unstable discursive category (even in antiquity); and the relationships between ancient and modern sexual categories.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Ohio State University Press
Place of Publication:Columbus
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:XII, 342 pagina's : : illustraties ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0814212832, 9780814212837
oclc:ocn950739581
LC Classification:HQ13
Dewey Decimal:306.7609495

Vaseworld: depiction and description of sex at Athens / Holt N. Parker -- Lesbians are not from Lesbos / Kate Gilhuly -- Pederasty and the popular audience / Julia Shapiro -- What is "Greek sex" for? / Nancy Worman -- Lusty ladies in the Roman imaginary / Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson -- The illusion of sexual identity in Lucian's dialogues of the Courtesans 5 / Sandra Boehringer -- Sculpting Antinous: creations of the ideal companion / Bryan E. Burns -- Epilogue: Not fade away / David M. Halperin.

Subjects

Gender identity in literature Greece History Homosexualité -- Histoire. -- Grèce homosexuality Homosexuality -- History. -- Greece Identité sexuelle -- Dans la littérature Rome (Empire) Sex customs Sex customs -- History. -- Greece Sex customs -- History. -- Rome Sex in literature Sexualité dans la littérature Vie sexuelle -- Histoire. -- Grèce Vie sexuelle -- Histoire. -- Rome