The experiences of Tiresias : the feminine and the Greek man /
Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its tit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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Colección: | Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND KEYWORDS
- Introduction. THE FEMININE OPERATOR
- PART ONE: Women, Men, and Affliction
- CHAPTER 1. Bed and War
- CHAPTER 2. Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for "Labor"
- PART TWO: The Weaknesses of Strength
- CHAPTER 3. The Spartans' "Beautiful Death"
- CHAPTER 4. The Warrior's Fear and Trembling
- CHAPTER 5. The Wounds of Virility
- CHAPTER 6. The Strangled Body
- CHAPTER 7. Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine
- PART THREE: Socrates IS a Man (Philosophical Interlude)
- CHAPTER 8. Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal
- CHAPTER 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher
- PART FOUR: What Woman?
- CHAPTER 10. And the Mothers' Case Dismissed
- CHAPTER 11. The Phantom of Sexuality
- CHAPTER 12. What Tiresias Saw
- CONCLUSION. Feminine Nature in History
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Glossary of Essential Terms and Names
- Index