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Classics & Feminism

Name: Classics & Feminism
Author: Barbara F. McManus
ISBN: 9780805797572

by Barbara F. McManus

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Classics and Feminism is the first book-length study of the impact of modern feminism on the discipline and profession of classics in the United States. Combining a wide-ranging overview of historical and current developments with in-depth analysis and examples, the book has relevance for anyone interested in the role of feminism in the academy. Because the history of classics has been so deeply implicated in androcentric structures of knowledge and patriarchal social patterns, it illustrates with exceptional clarity many issues endemic to academic feminism as a whole. Barbara F. McManus provides an illuminating analysis of the complex gender performance demanded of academic women as "disembodied scholars." She defines and illustrates the distinctive aspects of a feminist approach to scholarship and argues that gender analysis is crucially important in traditionally masculine areas as well as in the study of women. She explains the theoretical and methodological principles developed by feminist classical scholars seeking to recover information about women from scanty and scattered evidence filtered through centuries of patriarchal interpretation. McManus envisions the relationship of feminism and classics as a complex chorus of many voices singing in counterpoint. She argues that feminism's impact on classics has been radical but not revolutionary, leading to a redirection of the discipline and a redefining of professional boundaries. The last chapter of the book presents many individual classicists from across the country who eloquently describe the way feminism has influenced their perceptions, teaching, and scholarship.

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McManus (classics, College of New Rochelle) examines the impact of modern feminism on the discipline and profession of classics in the US over the past 30 years, combining an overview of historical and current developments with in-depth analysis and examples. She defines and illustrates distinctive aspects of a feminist approach to scholarship, argues that gender analysis is crucial in traditionally masculine areas as well as in the study of women, and explains theoretical and methodological principles developed by feminist classical scholars seeking to recover information about women from scattered evidence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.