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Female homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome / Sandra Boehringer ; translated from the French by Anna Preger

Boehringer, Sandra, 1972- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

xliv, 380 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Französisch)

Originally published in 2007. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Boehringer, Sandra : Female homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. - New York : Routledge, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-367-74476-2 (pbk. : GBP 34.99); 978-0-367-74478-6 (hbk)

978-1-003-15808-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020055638

9780367744762

OCoLC: 1272953525     

NH 6880      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ75.6.G8

306.76/63

Basisklassifikation: 15.25 (Alte Geschichte) ; 77.85 (Sexualpsychologie)

*Griechenland (Altertum) ; Römisches Reich ; Lesbische Orientierung <Motiv> ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Lesbianism -- Greece -- History ; Lesbianism -- Rome -- History ; Lesbianism -- Mythology -- History

"This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and medical writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply - a society "before sexuality" - where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. The book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality"--