Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns)

Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. I Nature Of Gender, The Gender Of Nature -- Sliding Scales -- Myth Of Pandora: Woman As Other? -- Sexing The Body In Ancient Medical And Biological Texts -- Sex And Gender: Ancients And Moderns -- Gendering Of Matter -- Ch. Ii Practice Of Gender, The Gender Of Practice -- Gender's Zero-sum Game -- Foucault's Ancients -- Before Sexuality? The Past And Its Uses -- Practices Of Masculinity -- Ch. Iii Politics Of Gender, The Gender Of Politics -- Variations On A Murder -- Demeter, Persephone And The Great Goddess -- Legacy Of Demeter -- Matriarchal Prehistory -- Arresting Antigone -- Hegel: Introducing The Family And The State -- Lacan: Antigone's Desire -- Irigaray: Reclaiming Antigone -- Butler And Beyond: The Future Of Gender. Brooke Holmes. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 184-208) And Index.