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1 online resource (351 pages) |
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Routledge Companions Ser |
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Routledge Companions Ser
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<P>Introduction<B>: </B>The Ideological Construct of the 'Inferior Female', Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers & Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou</P><P></P><OL><OL><B><P></P></OL></OL><P>I. Greek and Roman Antiquity</P><OL><OL><P></P></OL></OL><OL><OL></B><P></P></OL></OL><P>1. Solon's Legislation and Women's Incompatibility with State Ideology, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>2. Making Men and Making Women: 'Male Superiority' in Archaic Athens, Matthew Lloyd</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>3. Powerful Women and Gender Ideology in Herodotus' <I>Histories</I>, Helen Tank</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>4. Women in Thucydides: Absence and Inferiority, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>5. Autochthonous Landscape and Female Exclusion in the Athenian Democracy, Allison Surtees</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>6. The Politics of Female Madness in Greek Tragedy, Maria Gerolemou </P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>7. Mechanisms of Exclusion: Women Between Ritual and Emotion, Eleni Papazoglou</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>8. Dangerous Bodies: Plato's <I>Laws</I> and the Ideology of Female Inferiority in Fourth Century Athens, Elizabeth LaFray </P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>9. Politics of the Deformed: Women, Slaves, and Democracy in Aristotle, Velvet Yates</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>10. Women in Associations in Classical and Hellenistic Athens, James Kierstead </P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>11. Female Reticence in Republican Rome: Agency and the Performance of Exclusion, Margherita Carucci</P><OL><OL><P></P></OL></OL><P></P><OL><OL><B><P></P></OL></OL><P>II. Renaissance through Modernity</P><OL><OL><P></P></OL></OL><OL><OL></B><P></P></OL></OL><P>12. Gendering Civic Humanism: Political Subjecthood and Male Hegemony in Renaissance Italy, Androniki Dialeti</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>13. The Materiality of Female Agency: Madre María de San José's Writings in Seventeenth-Century New Spain, Constance G. Janiga-Perkins</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>14. Woman Reclaimed: Subverting Feminine Exclusion in the Works of María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Xabier Granja Ibarreche</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>15. Women and French Democracy, 1789-1804: Between the Guillotine and the Civil Code Limitations, Metka Zupančič</P><P>16.<EM> Mary Chesnut's Civil War</EM>: Female Exclusion and Race in the American South, Youli Theodosiadou</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>17. A "Society of Outsiders": Virginia Woolf's Feminist Agenda in <I>A Room of One's Own </I>and <I>Three Guineas, </I> Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>18. Gender Equality Law in Greece and the European Union: The Trajectory from Exclusion to Inclusion, Anna-Maria Konsta</P><OL><OL><P></P><P></P></OL></OL><P>19. Gender, Citizenship, and Political Inclusion/Exclusion in the European Union: An Intersectional Approach, Birte Siim and Monika Mokre</P><OL><OL><P></P></OL></OL> |
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Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion- Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Figures; Table; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the ideological construct of the 'inferior female'; Continuities and breaks; The clash between democracy and patriarchy; Beyond the dismantling of democracy; Shift in scholarly focus; Goals and objectives; Methodological considerations and overview of essays; References; PART I: Greek and Roman antiquity |
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Chapter 1: Solon's legislation and women's incompatibility with state ideologyIntroduction; Dowry and marriage; Female nature and character; Funeral laws and mourning practices; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Making men and making women: 'male superiority' in archaic Athens; Archaic Athenian cemeteries: "a parade ground of masculinity"; Masculinity in action: athletics, pederasty, and the symposium; Herms, tyrannicides, and changing Athenian masculinity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Powerful women and gender ideology in Herodotus' Histories; The rhetoric of female inferiority |
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The constraints of nomos and gender performanceGender fluidity: the case of Artemisia; Tomyris; Pheretime; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Women in Thucydides: absence and inferiority; Omission and relegation; Passivity and detriment: marginalized aristocratic wives; Women in war: murder, walls, and stasis; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Autochthonous landscape and female exclusion in the Athenian democracy; Athenian autochthony and motherhood; Athenian autochthony and fatherhood; Women in the public sphere: politics and military; Notes; References |
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Chapter 6: The politics of female madness in Greek tragedyIntroduction; Defining female madness; The case of Aeschylus' Clytemnestra; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Mechanisms of exclusion: women between ritual and emotion; Vengeful maidens; Aeschylus' suppliant maidens: when women create problems to men; Euripides' suppliant mothers: when women are ignored by men; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Dangerous bodies: Plato's Laws and the ideology of female inferiority in fourth-century Athens; Women as political actors in the Laws and The Republic |
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Movable wombs, inferior souls, and the dangers of female natureConclusion: female nature and its implications for political participation in the Laws; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Politics of the deformed: women, slaves, and democracy in Aristotle; Women as deformed men; Natural slaves as deformed Greeks; Ethical deficiencies of the deformed: akrasia and akolasia; The state: a composite of mind and body; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 10: Women in associations in classical and Hellenistic Athens; Introduction; The evidence; Explaining the evidence; Explaining inclusion |
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Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centers of political power - from the birth of democracy in ancient Athens to the modern era. In this period of 2500 years, two parallel tracks advanced: while male authority tried to construct an ideology that justified women's incompatibility with the political organization of the state, women attempted to resist their exclusion and thwart arguments about their inferiority. Although the issue of women's status has been studied in detail in specific eras, this interdisciplinary collection extends the boundaries of the discussion. Drawing on a wide range of literary and historical sources, including Herodotus' Histories, Plato's Laws, María de San José's Oaxaca Manuscript, and the work of Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and Virginia Woolf, thechapters here reveal the various manifestations of the female-inferiority construct. Such an extensive overview of this historical trajectory promotes a deeper understanding of its causes, permutations, and persistence. Women may have made great gains toward political power, but they continue to encounter invisible barriers, raised by traditional stereotypes, that block their path to success. Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion aims to make these barriers visible, raising awareness about the longevity and tenacity of arguments, the roots of which reach classical antiquity |
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Democracy and exclusion |
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Women -- Political activity -- History
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Sexism in political culture -- History
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Male domination (Social structure) -- History
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Sex role -- History
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Sex discrimination against women -- History
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Male domination (Social structure)
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Sex discrimination against women.
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Sex role.
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Sexism in political culture.
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Women -- Political activity.
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sex role.
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Male domination (Social structure)
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Sex discrimination against women
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Sex role
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Sexism in political culture
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Women -- Political activity
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina
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| ISBN |
9781351709385 |
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1351709380 |
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9781351709378 |
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1351709372 |
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9781351709361 |
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1351709364 |
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9781315177113 |
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1315177110 |
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1138038792 |
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9781138038790 |
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