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The reign of the phallus : sexual politics in ancient Athens /
At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This o...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
1993.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.