Overview

Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.

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Author:   Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz ,  Lisa Auanger
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292719460

ISBN 10:   0292719469
Pages:   407
Publication Date:   01 February 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera (Paul Rehak) 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis (Marilyn B. Skinner) 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments (Ellen Greene) 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 6. Women in Relief: ""Double Consciousness"" in Classical Attic Tombstones (John G. Younger) 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence (Lisa Auanger) 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls (Diane T. Pintabone) 9. Lucian's ""Leaena and Clonarium"": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? (Shelley P. Haley) 10. ""Friendship and Physical Desire"": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt (Terry G. Wilfong) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index"

Reviews

"""This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism."" John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio"

This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism. John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio

Author Information

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she also coordinates the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture. Lisa Auanger is an editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute.

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