Claire L. Lyons (ed.)

Naked Truths

Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology
Herausgeber: Koloski-Ostrow, Ann O; Lyons, Claire L

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a timely, provocative and beautifully illustrated re-evaluation of how gender, identity and sexuality reveal "naked truths" about fundamental human values and social realities, through the symbolism of the body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780415159951
• ISBN-10: 0415159954
• Artikelnr.: 21166531

Autorenporträt

Ann O Koloski-Ostrow, Claire L Lyons

Inhaltsangabe

1. Naked truths about classical art: An introduction 2. 'Ways of seeing'
women in antiquity: An introduction to feminism in classical archaeology
and ancient art history 3. Female beauty and male violence in early Italian
society 4. divesting the female breast of clothes in classical sculpture 5.
When painters execute a murderess: the representation of clytemnestra on
attic vases 6. Sappho in attic vase painting 7. Gender and sexuality in the
Parthenon frieze 8. Naked and limbless: Learning about the feminine body in
ancient Athens 9. Nursing mothers in classical art 10. Making a world of
difference: Gender, Asymmetry, and the Greek nude 11. The only happy
couple: Hermaphrodites and gender 12. Violent stages in two Pompeian
houses: Imperial taste, aristocratic response and messages of male control
13. Epilogue: gender and desire