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Published 1992
The rhetoric of gender terms : 'man', 'woman', and the portrayal of character in Latin prose /

: The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major Latin words for women in the form of a corresponding examination of how Roman authors use the various words for men. The resulting analysis throws light not only on Roman gender vocabulary but also on Roman cultural perceptions of class, moral worth and nationality. Furthermore, the author's detailed discussions of strictly linguistic evidence enable her to offer several original and persuasive insights about the traditional Latin literary representation of women. Understanding the connotative range of gender terms such as homo , vir , femina , mulier also reveals the value judgments made by ancient authors on male and female behaviour and can even be applied as a tool of historical analysis.
: 1 online resource (x, 216 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index. : 9789004329164 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1998
Paralysin cave : impotence, perception, and text in the Satyrica of Petronius /

: This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.
: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1993. : 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and indexes. : 9789004330962 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2013
Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics /

: More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film's way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
: 1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004241923 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2009
Male domination, female revolt : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction /

: This book investigates various forms of women's resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women's fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women-born before or in the first half of the twentieth century-as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change.
: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2005. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047442677 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.