Gender Archive
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Can One Believe the Ancient Sources That Describe Messalina?
Posted on September 29, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the primary sources that discusses Messalina in the most depth is The Annals, by Tacitus. However, Tacitus?s account of Messalina is questionable in several ways. First, Tacitus seems to have distinct motives for writing about Messalina that call into question the accuracy of his depiction. -
Women in Egypt – how the status of women in Egypt changed during the Ptolemaic Period
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation will thus attempt to shed light on the question of how and if the status of women changed in Ptolemaic Egypt during the Hellenistic period. The women in question will be both of the native Egyptian population and of the Graeco-Macedonian upper class who migrated toEgypt along with the early Ptolemaic dynasty (and who continued tomigrate to Egypt throughout the Hellenistic period). -
Queering Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsAs part of my general endeavours to queer the dominant representation of the archaeological past and, more specifically in the context of this paper, the construction of sex and gender in ancient egypt, I do not intend to develop another argument to determine whether niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were brothers or -
The censure of powerful women : roman monarchy and gender anxiety
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsRoman literature is full of disparaging commentary on women. Pemales in general are depicted as greedy, susceptible to luxuria, at the mercy of their uncontrollable passions, deceitful, jealous and cruel; a woman in proximity to power will attempt to corrupt that power or usurp it for herself and her own personal desires. -
For All Time: An Examination of Romantic Love Through Curse Tablets
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe current prevailing model for the study of gender and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity defines relationships as based upon either power or penetration. Through analysis of the amatory defixiones, or curse tablets, it will be demonstrated that romantic love, in addition to relationships based on domination and familial and political alliances, existed in the classical world. -
Birth prevention before the era of modern contraception
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsIt is generally agreed that the Gynaecology of Soranus is the most rational medical treatise on birth control in the classical literature. -
Julio-Claudian empresses
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe social framework in which Romans lived has been reexamined in recent years. One important focus, the study of Roman women and family, has emerged.1 Indeed, social historians argue that the roles generally played by wives and mothers are crucial keys to our understanding their value in Roman society. -
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her CommunitiesRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities
Posted on August 25, 2012 | No CommentsRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities Minardi, -
Frank Miller
Posted on August 16, 2012 | No CommentsHas 300 so successfully appealed to audiences globally because of, or despite, its extremely violent, racist, homophobic, and sexist subtext?...This paper approaches 300 as a media product produced and consumed in spatially specific ways. I present a geographical reading of 300 -
The female body in Latin love poetry
Posted on August 16, 2012 | No CommentsMy study examines the female body
