Ebook {Epub PDF} Roman Sexualities by Marilyn B. Skinner

In the preface to this timely and excellent overview of the field, Skinner claims (exaggeratedly) to be ‘uniquely equipped’ to analyse these changes in the discipline, as she participated in all the intellectual and emotional challenges from her childhood in the conservative fifties; more importantly, her qualifications include two books on Catullus, a valuable collection of articles (jointly edited with Judith Estimated Reading Time: 11 mins.  · Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner, This collection makes an important contribution. Its laudable aim is, in Skinner’s introductory words, to demonstrate that “Roman constructions of sex should constitute a discrete research area within the general field of ancient sexuality” (p. 3). Thus Roman Sexualities brings together essays by twelve scholars by way of contributing to the ongoing process of . Roman Sexualities | Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner (eds.) | download | Z-Library. Download books for free. Find books.

This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of. Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Arizona. Her research has focused on notions of gender and sexuality in the ancient world. She is the author of Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister (), and co-editor of Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (with M. P. F. Pinheiro and F. I. Zeitlin, ), and The New Sappho on Old Age. 4 "Ego mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus," in Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds., Roman Sexualities (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ) ; revised and shortened version of an essay previously published in Helios () "Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman?," in Ellen Greene, ed.

Roman Sexualities | Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner (eds.) | download | Z-Library. Download books for free. Find books. Sexuality in Greek and Roman culture / by: Skinner, Marilyn B. Published: () Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA Contact Directions Privacy Security Diversity Higher Education Act MY NOVA Villanova A-Z Directory Work at Villanova Accessibility. Sexuality in greek and roman culture by: Skinner, Marilyn B. Published: () Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA Contact Directions Privacy Security Diversity Higher Education Act MY NOVA Villanova A-Z Directory Work at Villanova Accessibility.