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Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth /

In recent decades, feminist geographers have advanced a better insight into gender dynamics by exploring how women interact with their surrounding space and their complex relationship to the household. Regarding ancient cultures, a reconsideration of gendered spaces and women's mobility is also...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Konstantinou, Ariadne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Colección:Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Goddesses on the move
  • To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses
  • Beginning from Hestia
  • Athena's ride
  • Artemis the huntress
  • The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers
  • Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility
  • The mobility of Demeter and other females in the Homeric hymn to Demeter
  • Hera's mobility and her choice to remain immobile
  • Heroines on the move
  • Away from the paternal hearth: mobile heroines in Greek tragedy
  • Mobile heroines in Greek tragedy
  • Io in Prometheus bound: mobility and centrifugality
  • The Danaids and Io in the geography of Suppliants
  • Female mobility between myth and ritual
  • Maenads at the mountain: the mobility of maenads and configurations of space in Euripides' Bacchae
  • The space of the hunt in huntress myths and the Arkteia at Brauron
  • From female mobility to gendered spaces: the limits of mythic imagination
  • The limits of mythic imagination and of female mobility in myth
  • "Glass walls" as the limits of female mobility.