ISBN:
0520079299
,
0520079280
,
9780520079281
,
9780520079298
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 477 S.
,
zahlr. Ill.
DDC:
306.709385
Keywords:
Women History
;
Sex role History
;
Sex customs History
;
Phallicism History
;
Athens (Greece) Politics and government
;
Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Military expeditions, protest, lament, and scandal -- Attic mythology : barren goddesses, male wombs, and the cult of rape -- The phallus and the box : the world seen in the shapes of human genitals -- Bearing children, watching the house -- Brides of death, in more ways than one -- The Athenian prostitute : a good buy in the agora -- The whore with the golden heart, the happy hooker, and other fictions -- Two kinds of women : the splitting of the female psyche -- The sex appeal of female toil -- Easier to live with than a wife : the concubine -- The boy beautiful : replacing a woman or replacing a son? -- Learning to be a man, learning to be a woman -- Sex among the barbarians -- Classical tragedy : weaving men's dream of sexual strife -- Sex antagonism and women's rituals -- Love, not war : protest in the arts and on the streets
Note:
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-439) and index
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