The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient AthensUniversity of California Press, 27 апр. 1993 г. - Всего страниц: 477 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 obsession with the phallus dominated almost every aspect of public life, influencing law, myth, and customs, affecting family life, the status of women, even foreign policy. This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the "reign of the phallus"—men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men. In her elegant and lucid text Eva Keuls not only examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus, but also uncovers an intense counter-movement—the earliest expressions of feminism and antimilitarism. Complementing the text are 345 reproductions of Athenian vase paintings. Some have been reproduced in a larger format and gathered in an appendix for easy reference and closer study. These revealing illustrations are a vivid demonstration that classical Athens was more sexually polarized and repressive of women than any other culture in Western history. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Military Expeditions Protest Lament and Scandal | 16 |
Barren Goddesses Male Wombs and the Cult of Rape 333 | 33 |
The World Seen in the Shapes of Human Genitals | 65 |
Bearing Children Watching the House | 98 |
Brides of Death in More Ways Than One | 129 |
A Good Buy in the Agora | 153 |
The Whore with the Golden Heart the Happy Hooker and other Fictions | 187 |
Replacing a Woman or Replacing a Son? | 274 |
Learning to Be a Man Learning to Be a Woman | 300 |
Sex Among the Barbarians | 321 |
Weaving Mens Dream | 329 |
Sex Antagonism and Womens Rituals | 349 |
Protest in the Arts and on the Streets | 381 |
Notes | 417 |
Supplementary Bibliography | 435 |
The Splitting of the Female Psyche | 204 |
The Sex Appeal of Female Toil | 229 |
The Concubine | 267 |
Sources of Illustrations | 441 |
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