| Description |
viii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-439) and index. |
| Contents |
Military expeditions, protest, lament, and scandal -- Attic mythology : barren goddesses, male wombs, and the cult of rape -- The phallus and the box : the world seen in the shapes of human genitals -- Bearing children, watching the house -- Brides of death, in more ways than one -- The Athenian prostitute : a good buy in the agora -- The whore with the golden heart, the happy hooker, and other fictions -- Two kinds of women : the splitting of the female psyche -- The sex appeal of female toil -- Easier to live with than a wife : the concubine -- The boy beautiful : replacing a woman or replacing a son? -- Learning to be a man, learning to be a woman -- Sex among the barbarians -- Classical tragedy : weaving men's dream of sexual strife -- Sex antagonism and women's rituals -- Love, not war : protest in the arts and on the streets. |
| Subject |
Women -- Greece -- History.
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Sex role -- Greece -- History.
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Sex customs -- Greece -- History.
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Phallicism -- Greece -- History.
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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| Indexed Term |
Sex roles History |
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Athens (Greece) |
| ISBN |
0520079280 alkaline paper |
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9780520079281 alkaline paper |
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0520079299 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520079298 paperback alkaline paper |
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