The Experiences of Tiresias : : The Feminine and the Greek Man / / Nicole Loraux.
Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its tit...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
304 |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND KEYWORDS
- Introduction. THE FEMININE OPERATOR
- PART ONE: Women, Men, and Affliction
- CHAPTER 1. Bed and War
- CHAPTER 2. Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for "Labor"
- PART TWO: The Weaknesses of Strength
- CHAPTER 3. The Spartans' "Beautiful Death"
- CHAPTER 4. The Warrior's Fear and Trembling
- CHAPTER 5. The Wounds of Virility
- CHAPTER 6. The Strangled Body
- CHAPTER 7. Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine
- PART THREE: Socrates IS a Man (Philosophical Interlude)
- CHAPTER 8. Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal
- CHAPTER 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher
- PART FOUR: What Woman?
- CHAPTER 10. And the Mothers' Case Dismissed
- CHAPTER 11. The Phantom of Sexuality
- CHAPTER 12. What Tiresias Saw
- CONCLUSION. Feminine Nature in History
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Glossary of Essential Terms and Names
- Index