The Constraints Of Desire

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134975808

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The Constraints of Desire by John J. Winkler Pdf

For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back from this narrowly framed question and puts it in the larger context of how sex and gender in ancient Greece were culturally constructed. His innovative approach uncovers the very real possibilities for female autonomy that existed in Greek society.

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0415901235

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The Constraints of Desire by John J. Winkler Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David M Halperin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136608773

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One Hundred Years of Homosexuality by David M Halperin Pdf

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."

Author : Kimberly B. Stratton,Dayna S. Kalleres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780190202149

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Daughters of Hecate by Kimberly B. Stratton,Dayna S. Kalleres Pdf

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.

Author : Henry Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:HNMGA7

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Principles of Natural and Supernatural Morals by Henry Hughes Pdf

Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501772979

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The Retrospective Muse by Froma I. Zeitlin Pdf

The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin's work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars around the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity's most significant critical questions. Zeitlin's writing still sheds light on the durable aspects of classics as a discipline, and this book encapsulates her achievement.

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521568420

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Impersonations by Stephen Orgel Pdf

A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.

Author : Chad Denton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786495047

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The War on Sex by Chad Denton Pdf

From earliest times, sex has fascinated and repulsed society in equal measure. In an effort to untangle Western society's complex relationship with the realities of sex, this provocative volume explores the ways in which governments, religious leaders and cultures in Europe tried to regulate sex and sexuality throughout history. From the sacred texts of ancient Israel to the slums of 19th century Britain, this book explores political, legal and cultural controls on consensual sex and the individuals and movements that resisted them. Topics range from prostitution and homosexuality to marriage, contraception and abortion. While traditional narrative holds that Europe alternated between sexual freedom and oppression through the Victorian age, this work reveals that the real story of how sex was regulated--and how people defied regulation--is not so clear cut.

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691206486

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Rehearsals of Manhood by John J. Winkler Pdf

"When John J. Winkler died in 1990, he left a substantially complete manuscript containing the final version of the project he had undertaken in the last decade of his life: an original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. That manuscript was based on The Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College, which Winkler delivered in September of 1988. The present text has been edited and updated by classicists David Halperin, Winkler's literary executor, and Kirk Ormand, Winkler's student and an expert on Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood, the final work of a widely recognized and celebrated classical scholar, proposes an entirely new account of Greek drama providing an explanation of the social place of Greek drama and its relation to the gendered organization of Athenian social life. Winkler interprets drama as a secular manhood ritual, a public aesthetic undertaking focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and, specifically, on the training, the display, and the representation of young male warriors. According to Winkler, the chorus of both tragedy and comedy was composed of young Athenian men of citizen status, about eighteen to twenty years of age, who were undergoing military training in order to prepare themselves for the task of warfare; they danced on a rectangular dance floor in a rectangular formation that recalled the arrangement of the infantry phalanx; they accompanied plays that often highlighted scenarios of risk faced by young men on the verge of adulthood; and they performed in a theater whose seating was arranged to display the corporate body of the male citizenry as a whole, both its democratic equality and its hierarchical ranking according to degrees of excellence. Winkler does not offer new interpretations of the texts of Greek plays but a new account of how the very practice of dramatic performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state"--

Author : Sandra Boehringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000396164

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Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer Pdf

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply—a society "before sexuality"—where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

Author : Giles Pearson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023918

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Aristotle on Desire by Giles Pearson Pdf

This book reconstructs Aristotle's account of desire from his various scattered remarks. It will be relevant to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

Author : Mark Woeppel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780557586707

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Manufacturer's Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints by Mark Woeppel Pdf

There are, today, many good books on the Theory of Constraints, or "TOC". These books, however, generally focus on explaining the details of TOC. But subject matter knowledge alone is not enough, if you want to actually use TOC in business. You must also have a valid roadmap for implementing it. This book provides it. Throughout the book, you have the concrete and actionable voice of a successful TOC consultant leading you to understand how to implement TOC in a manufacturing organization. The book also provides examples of various charts, forms and procedures that you can use as patterns for the materials you will need in your implementations.

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262631433

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A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Brian Massumi Pdf

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.

Author : Karen Jo Torjesen
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015026819709

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When Women Were Priests by Karen Jo Torjesen Pdf

Vital to the current debate about women and the church, this landmark book discloses clearly for the first time that women played prominent leadership roles in Jesus' own ministry and in the early church--as prophets, heads of churches, and teachers. Torjensen shows that the real reasons for women's subordination in Christianity have been social and secular and represent a betrayal of Jesus' teaching. Illustrations.

Author : Hilary Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134982622

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Closure by Hilary Lawson Pdf

For over 2000 years our culture has believed in the possibility of a single true account of the world. Now this age is coming to a close. As a result there is a deep unease. We are lost both as individuals, and as a culture. In the new relativistic, post-modern era, we have no history, no right or moral action, and no body of knowledge. In their place is a plethora of alternative, and sometimes incompatible theories from 'fuzzy logic' to 'consilience' proposing a theory of everything. Closure is a response to this crisis. It is a radically new story about the nature of ourselves and of the world. Closure exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy: language and meaning, of the individual and identity, of truth and reality, but it is also philosophical in the broader everyday sense that it enables us to make sense of where and who we are. A central principle, the process of closure, is shown to be at the heart of experience and language. As a theory of knowledge it has dramatic consequences for our understanding of the sciences, involving a reinterpretation of what science does and how it is able to do it. It similarly proposes a profound shift in the role of art and religion. But, above all, it reshapes our understanding of ourselves and the organisation of society, our goals and our capacity to achieve them. A superb new account of how order is created out of disorder, Closure is an exhilarating work of conceptual geography.