| Description |
xiv, 229 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: L'ambiguo malanno. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 185-219. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Weaving of Discrimination -- Problems of Method -- Greece -- Matriarchy in Prehistory, Myth, and History -- The Neolithic Period -- Minoan Society: The Mediterranean Great Mother -- The Mycenaean Kingdoms -- Myths of Matriarchy: Amazons and the Lemnian Women -- Interpreting Myth: Forgotten History or Unthinkable World? -- Women and the Origin of Cities -- Female Initiation Ceremonies -- Origins of Western Misogyny -- The Homeric Poems -- Hesiod and Semonides -- Exclusion from the Polis -- The First Legislators -- The Classical Period -- Philosophers and Women -- The Reproduction Debate: Does Woman Contribute? -- Socrates and Aspasia -- The Virtues of Women -- Plato: Feminist? -- Aristotle: Woman-Matter -- Women and Literature -- Women in Classical Literature -- Lettered Women -- Homosexuality and Love -- Homosexual Love in Myth -- Crete and Sparta: The Role of Homosexuality in Initiation -- Homosexuality and Bisexual Divinities -- Plato -- Female Homosexuality -- The Hellenistic Age: New Images, Old Stereotypes -- Legal Status: Toward Equality -- Women and Political Power -- Women in Literature -- Rome -- The Hypothesis of Matriarchy -- The Protoagricultural Phase -- Tanaquil and Etruscan Women -- Traces of Ancient Collective Marriage? -- The Ancient Ethnographers -- The Debate on the Matriarchy -- The Period of the Kings and the Republic -- Legal Status of Women -- Social Status of Women -- The Principate and the Empire: -- The Emancipation of Women? -- The Centuries of Expansion. |
| Subject |
Women -- Greece -- History.
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Women -- Rome -- History.
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Civilization, Classical.
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| Indexed Term |
Ancient Rome Society Role of women |
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Ancient Greece Society Role of women |
| Added Title |
Ambiguo malanno. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cantarella, Eva. Ambiguo malanno. English. Pandora's daughters. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987 (OCoLC)654452421 |
| ISBN |
0801831938 alkaline paper |
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9780801831935 alkaline paper |
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080183385X paperback alkaline paper |
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9780801833854 paperback alkaline paper |
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