Sex in Antiquity : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

by: Masterson, M. Sorkin Rabinowitz, N. Robson, J.

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Sex in Antiquity

Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

Edited By Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson

Description

Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.

Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualizes these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which not only provide rich consideration of those areas but also provide a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.

Table of Contents
Introduction　

Part 1: Ancient Near East　

1.　Susan Ackerman　?I Have Hired You with My Son?s Mandrakes?: Women?s Reproductive Magic in Ancient Israel

2.　Roland Boer　From Horse Kissing to Beastly Emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East

3.　Stephanie L. Budin　Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East

4.　Gwendolyn Leick　Too Young - Too Old? Sex and Age in Mesopotamian Literature

5.　Elna K. Solvang　Guarding the House: Conflict, Rape, and David?s Concubines　

Part 2: Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece　

6.　Alastair J.L. Blanshard　Fantasy and the Homosexual Orgy: Unearthing the Sexual Scripts of Ancient Athens

7.　Claude Calame　Relations of Sex and Gender in Greek Melic Poetry: Helen Object and Subject of Desire

8.　Monica S. Cyrino　Of Love and Bondage in Euripides?　Hippolytus　

9.　Dorota Dutsch　Dog-Love-Dog:　Kynogamia　and Cynic Sexual Ethics

10.　Kathy L. Gaca　Ancient Warfare and the Ravaging Martial Rape of Girls and Women: Evidence from Homeric Epic and Greek Drama

11.　Allison Glazebrook　?Sex Ed? at the Archaic Symposium: Prostitutes, Boys and　Paideia　

12.　Simon Goldhill　Is There a History of Prostitution?

13.　Edward M. Harris　?Yes? and ?No? in Women?s Desire

14.　Andrew Lear　Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View

15.　Sheila Murnaghan　Naming Names, Telling Tales: Sexual Secrets and Greek Narrative

16.　Walter Penrose　Before Queerness? Visions of a Homoerotic Heaven in Ancient Greco-Italic Tomb Paintings

17.　Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz　Melancholy Becomes Electra

18.　James Robson Fantastic Sex: Fantasies of Sexual Assault in Aristophanes　

Part 3: Republican, Imperial and Late Ancient Rome　

19.　Sandra Boehringer　What is Philaenis the name of? The Identity, Function and Authority of an Unnamed Figure

20.　Daniel Boyarin　Friends without Benefits; or, Academic Love

21.　Matthew Fox　The Bisexuality of Orpheus

22.　Hunter H. Gardner:　Curiositas, Horror, and the Monstrous-Feminine in Apuleius?　Metamorphoses　

23.　Barbara Gold　The Remaking of Perpetua: A Female Martyr Reconstructed

24.　Judith P. Hallett　Making Manhood Hard: Tiberius and Latin Literary Representations of Erectile Dysfunction

25.　Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson　Revisiting Roman Sexuality: Agency and the Conceptualization of Penetrated Males

26.　Mark Masterson　Toward a Late-Ancient Physiognomy

27.　Kelly Olson　Toga and　Pallium: Status, Sexuality, Identity

28.　Amy Richlin　Reading Boy-Love and Child-Love in the Greco-Roman World

29.　Steven D. Smith　Agathias and Paul the Silentiary: Erotic Epigram and the Sublimation of Same-Sex Desire in the Age of Justinian

30.　Craig Williams　The Language of Gender: Lexical Semantics and the Latin Vocabulary of Unmanly Men

Index

Sex in Antiquity : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

by: Masterson, M. Sorkin Rabinowitz, N. Robson, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781138480414 / 978-1-138-48041-4
• ISBN-03: 113848041X / 1-138-48041-X
• Routledge, London, 2018

Price: 49,90 EURO

1 copy in stock