Roman sexualities
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Roman sexualities
Princeton University Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-332) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
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 power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened. In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B.
Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Quod multo fit aliter in Graecia ...3Pt. 1Unmarked Sexuality1Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought29Pt. 2Wayward Sexualities2The Teratogenic Grid473Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome66Pt. 3Gender Slippage in Literary Constructions of the Masculine4Dining Deviants in Roman Political Invective995Ego mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus1296The Erotics of amicitia: Readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace1517Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman Elegy172Pt. 4Male Constructions of "Woman"8Pliny's Brassiere1979Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina22110Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature25511The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Wy Is Sappho a Man?274Pt. 5Female Construction of the Desiring Subject12Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love295Bibliography311Notes on Contributors333Index335
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Description
A collection of essays seeking to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece, in an attempt to present 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 power reflected in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators, and women, boys and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted, in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened.
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