· Gender Antiquity and Its Legacy Brooke Holmes Ancients Moderns. Offers the first account of how ancient Greek and Roman ideas have influenced the development of gender as a modern concept; Examines how gender's ascent has shaped the ways in which we read the evidence from the ancient Greco-Roman past. In this short, lively book, the author offers a sophisticated and historically rounded reading of gender in antiquity in order to map out the future of contemporary gender studies. By re-examining ancient notions of sexual difference, bodies, culture, and identity, Holmes shows that Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and others force us to reassess what is at stake in present-day discussions about gender.5/5(4). · Holmes, Brooke. Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy. London: I. B. Tauris, Web.
My second book, Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy, a study of how the field of gender studies has been shaped through engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity, appeared in the series "Ancients and Moderns" (I. B. Tauris-Oxford University Press) in A second co-edited volume on the reception of Epicureanism from antiquity to the twentieth. Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy. Gender.: Brooke Holmes. bltadwin.ru, - Social Science - pages. 1 Review. Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite the popularity of gender studies both inside and outside the academy, some have argued that the radical debates which first. BROOKE HOLMES Department of Classics East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, NJ bholmes@bltadwin.ru EMPLOYMENT Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns) I. B. Tauris (London) and Oxford University Press (New York),
Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized - so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking and ideas that it once did. Brooke Holmes here rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender in order precisely to reinvigorate contemporary debate. Holmes, Brooke. Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy. London: I. B. Tauris, Web. This is revealed by H. in three well-documented chapters that consecutively address how the sexed body, sexual difference and the gendering of the body was understood in antiquity by referring to the poems of Hesiod and the feminist readings of Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophies (‘The Nature of Gender, the Gender of Nature’); how gender labels have been applied to ancient Greek and Roman subjects, whilst at the same time revealing the potential relevance of Judith Butler’s ideas.
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