The reign of the phallus sexual politics in ancient Athens

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 pro...

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1. Verfasser: Keuls, Eva C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley u.a. Univ. of California Press 1993
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985
Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-439) and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 477 S.
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ISBN:0520079299
0-520-07929-9
0520079280
0-520-07928-0
9780520079281
978-0-520-07928-1
9780520079298
978-0-520-07929-8