The reign of the phallus : sexual politics in ancient Athens / Eva C. Keuls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, c1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0060153008 :
  • 9780060153007
  • 0060911298 (pbk.) :
  • 9780060911294
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7/0938 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1134 .K48 1985
Contents:
Military expeditions, protest, lament, and scandal -- Attic mythology : barren goddesses, male wombs, and the cult of rape -- The phallus and the box : the world seen in the shapes of human genitals -- Bearing children, watching the house -- Brides of death, in more ways than one -- The Athenian prostitute : a good buy in the Agora -- The whore with the golden heart, the happy hooker, and other fictions -- Two kinds of women : the spitting image of the female psyche -- The sex appeal of female toil -- Easier to live with than a wife : the concubine -- The boy beautiful : replacing women or replacing a son? -- Learning to be a man ; learning to be a woman -- Sex among the barbarians -- Classical tragedy : weaving men's dreams of sexual strife -- Sex antagonism and women's rituals -- Love, not war : protest in the arts and on the streets.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction HQ 1134 KEU 1985 1 Available 00609112981

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-434) and index.

Military expeditions, protest, lament, and scandal -- Attic mythology : barren goddesses, male wombs, and the cult of rape -- The phallus and the box : the world seen in the shapes of human genitals -- Bearing children, watching the house -- Brides of death, in more ways than one -- The Athenian prostitute : a good buy in the Agora -- The whore with the golden heart, the happy hooker, and other fictions -- Two kinds of women : the spitting image of the female psyche -- The sex appeal of female toil -- Easier to live with than a wife : the concubine -- The boy beautiful : replacing women or replacing a son? -- Learning to be a man ; learning to be a woman -- Sex among the barbarians -- Classical tragedy : weaving men's dreams of sexual strife -- Sex antagonism and women's rituals -- Love, not war : protest in the arts and on the streets.

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