ISBN:
9781845119294
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (224 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender : Antiquity and its Legacy
DDC:
305.3094
Keywords:
Sex - Europe - History - To 1500
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterised gender studies have become ghettoized or maginalized - so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking and ideas that it once did. Brooke Holmes here rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender in order precisely to reinvigorate contemporary debate. She argues that much writing on gender in the classical age fails to place those ancient ideas within their proper historical c
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. The nature of gender, the gender of nature; 2. The practice of Gender, the gender of practice; 3. The politics of Gender, the gender of politics; CONCLUSION; Some suggestions for further reading; NOTES; INDEX
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