Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion (eBook, PDF)

From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era
Redaktion: Tsakiropoulou-Summers, Tatiana; Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina

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Produktbeschreibung

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centres of political power - from the birth of democracy in Ancient Athens to the Modern Era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351709385
• Artikelnr.: 54363249

Autorenporträt

Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers received her doctorate in Classics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, USA. Her research focuses on female archetypes in Greek and Roman epic poetry and on the impact of ancient thought on Western civilization, especially the status of women. She has published numerous articles and a collection of essays on women and the formation of ethnic identity in Greek culture. She is the director of the Athens Center for Classical and Byzantine Studies at the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Greece. Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou received her doctorate in English from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she is currently teaching. Her research focuses on realism, modernism, and the English novel, as well as on gender and body theory. She has co-edited several volumes of essays, including The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body (2009). She is also general editor of the European Journal of English Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ideological Construct of the 'Inferior Female' I. Greek
and Roman Antiquity 1. Solon's Legislation and Women's Incompatibility with
State Ideology 2. Making Men and Making Women: 'Male Superiority' in
Archaic Athens 3. Powerful Women and Gender Ideology in Herodotus'
Histories 4. Women in Thucydides: Absence and Inferiority 5. Autochthonous
Landscape and Female Exclusion in the Athenian Democracy 6. The Politics of
Female Madness in Greek Tragedy 7. Mechanisms of Exclusion: Women Between
Ritual and Emotion 8. Dangerous Bodies: Plato's Laws and the Ideology of
Female Inferiority in Fourth-Century Athens 9. Politics of the Deformed:
Women, Slaves, and Democracy in Aristotle 10. Women in Associations in
Classical and Hellenistic Athens 11. Female Reticence in Republican Rome:
Agency and the Performance of Exclusion II. Renaissance through Modernity
12. Gendering Civic Humanism: Political Subjecthood and Male Hegemony in
Renaissance Italy 13. The Materiality of Female Agency: Madre María de San
José's Writings in Seventeenth-Century New Spain 14. Woman Reclaimed:
Subverting Feminine Exclusion in the Works of María de Zayas in
Seventeenth-Century Spain 15. Women and French Democracy, 1789-1804:
Between the Guillotine and the Civil Code Limitations 16. Mary Chesnut's
Civil War : Female Exclusion and Race in the American South 17. A Society
of Outsiders: Virginia Woolf's Feminist Agenda in A Room of One's Own and
Three Guineas 18. Gender Equality Law in Modern Greece and the European
Union: The Trajectory from Exclusion to Inclusion 19. Gender, Citizenship,
and Political Inclusion/Exclusion in the European Union: An Intersectional
Approach