Roman Sexualities /

Roman Sexualities / / ed. by Marilyn B. Skinner, Judith P. Hallett.

This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including lit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Corbeill, Anthony,
Edwards, Catharine,
Fredrick, David,
Gordon, Pamela,
Hallett, Judith P.,
Joshel, Sandra R.,
Keith, Alison,
Oliensis, Ellen,
Parker, Holt N.,
Richlin, Amy,
Skinner, Marilyn B.,
Walters, Jonathan,
HerausgeberIn:
Hallett, Judith P.,
Skinner, Marilyn B.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Quod multofit aliter in Graecia . . .
  • PART ONE: UNMARKED SEXUALITY
  • ONE. Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought
  • PART TWO: WAYWARD SEXUALITIES
  • TWO. The Teratogenic Grid
  • THREE. Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome
  • PART THREE: GENDER SLIPPAGE IN LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE MASCULINE
  • FOUR. Dining Deviants in Roman Political Invective
  • FIVE. Ego mulier. The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus
  • SIX. The Erotics of amicitia: Readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace
  • SEVEN. Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman Elegy
  • PART FOUR: MALE CONSTRUCTIONS OF "WOMAN"
  • EIGHT. Pliny's Brassiere
  • NINE. Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina
  • TEN. Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature
  • ELEVEN. The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Why Is Sappho a Man?
  • PART FIVE: FEMALE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DESIRING SUBJECT
  • TWELVE. Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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